Antonios 32

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitE IX
PmbZ No.560
ReligionChristian
LocationsAgauroi (Monastery of, near Prousa) (residence);
Thrakesioi (residence);
Agauroi (Monastery of, near Prousa);
Thrakesioi
TitlesHermit, Agauroi (near Prousa, Bithynia) (office)
Textual SourcesVita Ioannicii, by Petrus the monk (BHG 936), AASS November II 1, pp. 384-435 (hagiography)

Antonios 32S, Petros 128 and Sabas 10 are described as three holy men and solitaries (τοὺς ἱεροὺς καὶ ἡσυχίους ἄνδρας) who, according to the Life of St Ioannikios (Ioannikios 2) by Petrus (Petros 126), accompanied Ioannikios 2 when, after thirteen years spent near the monastery of the Agauroi (near Prousa, in Bithynia), he withdrew into the quieter districts of the Thrakesion (ἐπὶ τὰ μέρη τῶν Θρακησίων); the three soon grew weary there and returned, followed by Ioannikios 2 who then settled in a cell on Mt Trichalix: Petrus, Vita Ioannicii 10-11. This incident is not recorded in the Life of Ioannikios by Sabas 1 and is difficult to reconcile with it; Petrus records the construction of a cell by Eustratios 19 and Theophylaktos 105 both before and after it, which looks like a repetition of the same event. This man may possibly be identical with Antonios 31.

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