Maria 7 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | F |
| Floruit | L VIII/E IX |
| PmbZ No. | 4728 |
| Religion | Christian |
| Locations | Eirenopolis (Isauria) (residence); Eirenopolis (Isauria) |
| 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) |
Maria 7 was the wife of Sergios 58, mother of St Gregory the Decapolite (Gregorios 79); they lived at Eirenopolis in the Decapolis in Isauria; she was a devout person and brought her son up to be the same: Ignatius, Vita Greg. Dec. 2. She had a brother who was a monk (Anonymus 285): Ignatius, Vita Greg. Dec. 4. She and her husband (Sergios 58) tried to arrange a marriage for Gregorios 79: Ignatius, Vita Greg. Dec. 3. After her husband's death she encouraged Gregorios 79 in his ambition to become a monk and persuaded him to enter the monastery in which her own brother was a monk (Anonymus 285): Ignatius, Vita Greg. Dec. 4.
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