Paulos 50 was a monk or abbot (hegoumenos) in Crete (τοῦ ἀββᾶ Παύλου); an iconophile, he was arrested by the strategos of Crete, Theophanes 20, taken to the praitorion at Herakleion, and ordered to trample on an icon of Christ on the cross; he was promised his life if he did and death if he refused; he refused and performed an act of veneration to the icon instead; he was then nailed to some planks, turned upside down and burnt alive; his story was told to Stephen the Younger (Stephanos 2) and the other iconophile monks imprisoned in the praitorion at Constantinople by Antonios 18 (probably in 764): Vita Steph. Iun. 160, 12-29 (1164B-D). He is also recorded in Synax. Eccl. Const. 151/2, 152, 35. 43 (20 October), 153/154, 54 (21 October) and in the Typicon Mateos I 72 (20 October). See further Rochow, Konstantin V, p. 234.

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