Anonymus 288 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
Sex | M |
Floruit | E/M IX |
Religion | Christian |
Locations | Menas (Church of, Thessalonike) (officeplace); Thessalonike (residence); Thessalonike |
Occupation | Priest |
Textual Sources | Vita Gregorii Decapolitae, by Ignatius the Deacon,ed. F. Dvornik, La Vie de Saint Grégoire le Décapolite et les Slaves macédoniens au IXe siècle (Paris, 1926), pp. 45-75 (hagiography) |
Anonymus 288 was the unnamed head of the Church of the Martyr Menas at Thessalonike (τοῦ τηνικαῦτα τὴν ἐκκλησίαν διέποντος) (presumably a priest); he received Gregory the Decapolite (Gregorios 79) when Gregorios 79 arrived in Thessalonike and took up residence close to his church: Ignatius, Vita Greg. Dec. 14.
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