Anonymus 299 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | M IX |
Dates | 841 (c.) / 841 (c.) |
Religion | Christian |
Locations | Crete |
Textual Sources | Vita Iosephi Hymnographi, by John The Deacon (BHG 946), PG 105. 940-76 (hagiography); Vita Iosephi Hymnographi, by Theophanes (BHG 944), ed. A. Papadopoulos-Kerameus, Monumenta Graeca et Latina ad Historiam Photii Patriarchae Pertinentia, 2 vols. (St Petersburg, 1899, 1901) (hagiography) |
Anonymus 299 was a fellow-prisoner of Ioseph 12 (Joseph the Hymnographer) in Crete; after torture (βίᾳ ... βαρβαρικῇ) he was prepared to abjure Christ, but received comfort and strength from Ioseph 12 and suffered a martyr's death under further torture (see Anonymus 300): Theophanes, Vita Ioseph. Hymnog. 6, Ioannes, Vita Ioseph. Hymnog. 957B-D. The later source, Ioannes, records much more detail than Theophanes. The date of Ioseph 12's imprisonment was c. 841.
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