Ioannes 156 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | L VIII/E IX |
| Dates | 800 (c.) / 825 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 3140 |
| Religion | Christian |
| Locations | Hagios Sabas (Laura of, Palaestina) (residence); Phossaton (Palaestina) (residence); Hagios Sabas (Laura of, Palaestina); Phossaton (Palaestina) |
| Occupation | Hermit; Monk |
| Textual Sources | Vita Antonii Iunioris (BHG 142), ed. A. Papadopoulos-Kerameus, Sylloge Palaistinês kai Syriakês Hagiologias I (St Petersburg, 1907), pp. 186-216 (hagiography) |
Ioannes 156 was the leader of a band of robbers in Palestine (ἀρχιλῃστής); he subsequently became a monk and entered the monastery of St Sabas (near Jerusalem); later he withdrew to the mountains near Phossaton and became a hermit: Vita Anton. Iun. (BHG 142) 3-8. He took the youthful Antonios 12 into his service and foretold his future, saying that he would leave Syria, govern several Roman cities and finally spend forty years as a monk: Vita Anton. Iun. (BHG 142) 9. Later, when Antonios 12 was in office and was thinking of marriage, Ioannes sent to remind him of the prophecy: Vita Anton. Iun. (BHG 142) 19-21. Antonios 12 left Phossaton in c. 800 and was in office contemplating marriage in 825.
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