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https://spear-prosop.org/843-18
Event Factoid: When Theophilus was 15 and tending horses, he saw an incredible light coming out of the stable. Inside, he saw an old man flinging himself into the dung, so that the light was overcome with darkness. Theophilus pressed the old man about the light.

Sources:

  • E. W Brooks, trans.,Lives of the Eastern Saints III,Patrologia Orientalis 29.2 (1925), https://archive.org/stream/patrologiaorient19pariuoft#page/n163/mode/2up, p: 175.Link to Zotero Bibliographic RecordLink to Zotero Bibliographic Record

How to cite:

Samuel Young, https://spear-prosop.org/843-18, in The Lives of the Eastern Saints: A SPEAR Prosopography, edited by Daniel L. Schwartz, general editor Daniel L. Schwartz, 2025-07-01.

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