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Theophanes the Confessor of Sigriane

Also known as Theophanes the Confessor · Theophanes the Chronicler

A nobleman of Constantinople who left married life by mutual consent to become a monk and abbot at Sigriane. He suffered imprisonment and exile for venerating the holy icons during the second iconoclast persecution, and is remembered as the author of an important Byzantine chronicle.

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Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints