Petros 69

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM VIII
Dates764 (taq)
PmbZ No.6004
ReligionChristian;
Iconophile
LocationsPelagios (Cemetery of, Constantinople);
Constantinople;
Blachernai (Constantinople) (residence);
Blachernai (Constantinople)
OccupationHermit
TitlesHermit, Blachernai (Constantinople) (office)
Textual SourcesSynaxarion Armeniacum , part iv (Nov.-Dec.), ed. and tr. G. Bayan, PO 16.1 (1922), pp. 3-185 (hagiography);
Theophanes Confessor, Chronographia, ed. C. de Boor, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1883-85, repr. Hildesheim/NewYork, 1980); tr. and comm. C. Mango and R. Scott, The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor, Oxford 1997 (chronicle);
Vita Stephani Iunioris, by Stephanus Diaconus (BHG 1666), ed. M.-F. Auzépy, La Vie d'Etienne le Jeune par Étienne le diacre. Introduction, édition et traduction (Aldershot, 1997); PG 100. 1069-1186 (hagiography)

Petros 69 was a well-respected stylite (τὸν ἀοίδιμον στυλίτην) living on a rock; he rejected iconoclasm and was killed by the emperor Constantine V (Konstantinos 7), being dragged by the feet through Constantinople and thrown into the cemetery of Pelagios: Theoph. AM 6259, cf. Georg. Mon. 757, 9-11, Synax. Eccl. Const. 262. 33 (28 November), 263. 13-18 (28 November), 151/152, 38. 41 (20 October), 153/154. 54ff.(21 October), Menol. Basil. 181C (28 November), Typicon Mateos I 72 (20 October), 116 (28 November), Leo Gramm. 186, 12ff., Theod. Mel. 128, 20ff., Sym. Slav. 81, 17, Cedr. II 14, 19-22. He was a hermit living at Blachernai (Πέτρον λέγω τὸν ὅσιον τὸν ἐν Βλαχέρναις ἐγκεκλεισμένον); an iconophile, he was one of the victims of Constantine V (Konstantinos 7), beaten to death in the emperor's presence; he had called the emperor a tyrant and an apostate to his face (τοῦτον Δαδιανὸν καὶ παραβάτην παρρησίᾳ κηρύξας: on the name Dadianos (a persecuting emperor of Persia), see Auzépy, n. 385); he was mentioned by Stephen the Younger (Stephanos 2) while Stephanos 2 was held in the praetorion (probably 764): Vita Steph. Iun. 162, 10-15 (1165C-D). His death is mentioned briefly, with that of Athanasios, at the end of the life of Stephen the Younger, in the Armenian Synaxarion; they died on the same day as Stephanos 2: Synaxarion Armeniacum, p. 139. See also Rochow, Theophanes, pp. 176-178 and Andreas 5.

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