John Diakrinomenos in his Ecclesiastical History mentions that in c. 513/515 the emperor Anastasius had a dream vision of *Bartholomew (the Apostle, S00256) who promised to safeguard the new city of Dara (northern Mesopotamia). A relic of his was therefore deposited there. Written in Greek in Constantinople.
Evidence ID
E07735
Type of Evidence
Literary - Other narrative texts (including Histories)
John Diakrinomenos, Ecclesiastical History, excerpt from Book 9
Ἀναστάσιος ὁ βασιλεὺς ἔκτισε τὸ Δάρας, καὶ κτίσας ὄναρ τεθέαται Βαρθολομαῖον λέγοντα τὸν ἀπόστολον, ὡς αὐτὸς τὴν φυλακὴν ἐπετράπη τῆς πόλεως· διὸ τὸ λείψανον αὐτοῦ ἐκεῖ πέμψας ἀπέθετο.
'The emperor Anastasius founded Daras. When he founded it, he had a dream of Bartholomew the Apostle saying that he had been appointed to be the guardian of the city. For this reason, he [the emperor] had his relic sent and deposited there.'
Text: Hansen 1995, 157.
Translation: Efthymios Rizos.
Non Liturgical Activity
Saint as patron - of a community
MiraclesApparition, vision, dream, revelation
RelicsUnspecified relic
Protagonists in Cult and NarrativesMonarchs and their family
Source
John Diacrinomenus (Ioannes Diakrinomenos) was the author of an ecclesiastical history, which covered the period between the First Council of Ephesus (431) and c. 512. He wrote under the emperor Anastasius (491-518), and is known to have been a moderate Monophysite (hence his epithet Diakrinomenos, ‘the Hesitant’). However, only brief excerpts of the ten books of his history survive. In the 9th century, Photius had access to Books 1 to 5 (Bibliotheca cod. 42). Most of the fragments survive through their inclusion in an epitome of ecclesiastical history produced by an unknown author in the early 7th century (the same work through which most of the fragments of Theodore Lector survive): on the epitome and its transmission, see Hansen 1995, xxiv-xxxix.Bibliography
Text:Hansen, G.C., Theodoros Anagnostes. Kirchengeschichte. 2nd ed. (Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten drei Jahrhunderte NF 3; Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1995).
Further reading:
Treadgold, W., The Early Byzantine Historians (Basingstoke, 2006), 168-169.
Record Created By
Efthymios Rizos
Date of Entry
20/08/2019
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00256 | Bartholomew, the Apostle | Βαρθολομαῖος | Certain |
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