Known for his piety and his abstinence, Anonymus 296 became the head of the monastery of God and the Saviour, later known as the Latomos, at Thessalonike, which Joseph the Hymnographer (Ioseph 12) entered on his arrival there: Ioannes, Vita Ioseph. Hymnog. 945B (ἀνδρί τινι τῶν ἄγαν ἐγκρατῶν καὶ ὁσίων, ὁς διὰ τὸ τῆς ἀρέτης πέριον τὴν φρόντιδα τῶν ἀδελφῶν, οἱ κατὰ τὸ ἱερὸν φροντιστήριον τοῦ μεγάλου Θεοῦ καὶ Σώτηρος ἠσκοῦντο, οὐ δίωξας ἀλλὰ πνευματίκως διωχθείς, ἀνεδέξατο; τοῦ Λατομοῦ νῦν, ἐκ τοῦ γεγενημένου θαύματος, τὸ φροντιστήριον ὀνομάζεται). Anonymus 296 criticised Ioseph 12 for damaging his health through excessive asceticism and persuaded him to moderate his behaviour: Ioannes, Vita Ioseph. Hymnog. 949A-B. Later he was prevailed upon by Gregory the Decapolite (Gregorios 79) to allow Ioseph 12 to accompany him to Constantinople: Ioannes, Vita Ioseph. Hymnog. 952D.

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