A nun, Hypakoe 1 was the addressee of two letters of consolation on the death of her brother (Anonymus 584) from Theodore the Stoudite (Theodoros 15), written some time between 821 and 826: Theod. Stud., Epp. 540, pp. 815-816; 548, pp. 829-831 (both addressed Ὑπακοῇ μοναζούσῃ). The first letter also mentions as still alive her sisters, who were nuns in the same monastery as Hypakoe (Anonymae 2) and the children of her brother (Anonymi 18); they were of distinguished family (the brother was ὁ ὀφθαλμὸς τοῦ γένους: p. 815, line 15) and possibly Hypakoe 1, her sisters Anonymae 2, and perhaps their mother all entered the monastery after the death of their father, since the brother Anonymus 584 was in loco parentis (ἐν τάξει πατρὸς: p. 815, line 10) to them: Theod. Stud., Ep. 540, pp. 815-816. She had sent gifts to Theodoros 15: Theod. Stud., Ep. 548, pp. 829-831. She is styled τὴν ὑμετέραν τιμιότητα, Ep. 540, p. 816, line 44; and τῇ τιμιότητί σου, Ep. 548, p. 829, line 3; and is addressed as ἀδελφὴ ἐν Κυρίῳ, Epp. 540, p. 815, line 12; 548, p. 830, line 21; and as καλλιμῆτορ, Ep. 548, p. 829, line 4. Her brother Anonymus 584 had died some distance away and when his body was brought to her she displayed her emotion by opening the coffin and embracing him: Theod. Stud., Ep. 548, pp. 829-831.

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