Anonymus 56 was a workman (ἐργαστηριακός) living in Constantinople εἰς τὰς Σοφίας (either near Hagia Sophia or the harbour of Sophiai); he suffered from a painful disease but did not die until he disclosed that the patriarch Photios 1 had told him never to take communion when he was hungry and this was the cause of his suffering; the man then died: Ps.-Symeon 674. The story is one of several in an account which is very hostile to Photios 1.

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