Zacharias 7 was a notarios, living in Lydia (ἄνθρωπός τις νοτάριος ἐν τοῖς κατὰ Λυδίαν μέρεσιν ἔχων τὴν κατοίκησιν, Ζαχαρίας καλούμενος) during the reign of Michael II (Michael 10); during the civil war he left to join Thomas 7 and became very close to him, but was captured by one of the generals of Michael 10 (Anonymus 61) and placed under heavy guard on the island of Phygella, one of the fortified islands in the sea; his wife visited Peter of Atroa (Petros 34) at Kalon Oros and asked him to pray for her husband, who then escaped in miraculous circumstances and returned home safely; he visited Petros 34 to thank him: Vita Petr. Atr. 39, pp. 149-153, cf. Vita Petr. Atr. Retractata 54 (p. 113) (Περὶ τῆς τοῦ κατακλείστου Ζαχαρίου ἀπολυτρώσεως) (the note of Laurent at the foot of p. 113 has confused Zacharias with Beniamin 1). The civil war lasted from 821 to 823. Possibly notarios of the Thrakesioi; see Laurent, La vie merveilleuse, p. 148, n. 2.

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