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SYMEON METAPHRASTES,1 the most renowned of the Byzantine hagiographcrs. Scholars have been very much divided as to the period in which he lived, dates ranging from the 9th century to the I4th having been suggested; but it is now generally agreed that he flouri ...

... July, in the Orthodox Eastern Church on the 8th of May. His biography by Simeon Metaphrastes is largely fiction. ARSENIUS AUTORIANUS (i3th century), patriarch of Constantinople, lived about the middle of the i3th century. He received his education in Nicaea at ...