Saint Thomas on mount Maleon (ὅσιος Θωμᾶς ὁ ἐν τῷ Μαλεῷ): approaches to the historical data of a forgotten saint
Abstract
The memory of Saint Thomas «en to Maleo» is celebrated on the 7th of July. Few texts refer to the saint, such as the Synaxarion of the Church of Constantinople and the Menologion of Basil II. These are short Lives and extremely poor in historical data. The saint is not included in the Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca. There is also no information about his origin, his birthplace, his parents, his position in the military hierarchy, the battles in which he took part, the place where he spent his monastic life and the time of his death. This study attempts to highlight the problems that arise and to provide answers to some of them.
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ΛΑΜΠΡΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ (Anna LAMBROPOULOU) Α., & ΓΕΡΟΛΥΜΑΤΟΥ (Maria GEROLYMATOU) Μ. (2023). Saint Thomas on mount Maleon (ὅσιος Θωμᾶς ὁ ἐν τῷ Μαλεῷ): approaches to the historical data of a forgotten saint. Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society, 42, 129–148. https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.32390
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