Symeon 31 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | L VIII/E IX |
| Dates | 799 (tpq) / 815 (taq) |
| Religion | Christian |
| Locations | Stoudios (Monastery of, Constantinople) (residence); Stoudios (Monastery of, Constantinople) |
| Occupation | Monk |
| Titles | Nosokomos, Stoudios (Constantinople) (office) |
| Textual Sources | Vita A Theodori Studitae, Auctore Theodoro Daphnopate? (BHG 1755), PG 99. 113-232 (hagiography); Vita B Theodori Studitae, Auctore Michaele Monacho Studita (BHG 1754), PG. 99. 233-328 (hagiography); Vita C Theodori Studitae, Auctore Incerto (BHG 1755d), ed. B. Latyshev, "Vita S. Theodori Studitae in codice Mosquensi musei Rumianzoviani no 520", VV 21 (1914), pp. 258-304 (hagiography) |
Symeon 31 was a Stoudite monk and nosokomos; when one of his patients, gravely ill in the monastic infirmary, asked for the prayers of the hegoumenos Theodoros 15 (Theodore the Stoudite) for death to release him from his suffering, Symeon 31 conveyed the message to Theodoros 15; when Theodoros 15 had finished praying, Symeon 31 returned to the patient and found that he had just died: Vita B Theod. Stud. 309AB (ὁ τὴν φροντίδα τῶν ἀσθενῶν ποιούμενος - Συμεὼν δ' οὗτος ἦν; later called ὁ νοσοκόμος), cf. Vita A Theod. Stud. 213A, Vita C Theod. Stud., ¤65, p. 295 (the same story; Symeon 31 is the unnamed nosokomos). The date was between 799 and 815.
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