Anonymus 294 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | E/M IX |
| Religion | Christian |
| Locations | Thessalonike |
| Occupation | Hesychast; Monk; Stylite |
| 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 294 was a monk at Thessalonike; he was a stylite and a hesychast; once, when the disciple who attended on him was absent on some business, a woman who was related to the disciple performed the function of his attendant and they began to fall in love; Gregory the Decapolite (Gregorios 79) was known to the man (γνωστὸς ὢν τῷ στυλοβάτῃ) and, although sick, hastened to the place, drove the woman away with a stick and gave the monk some stern advice: Ignatius, Vita Greg. Dec. 24.
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