Name
Isaakios, late 4th c. abbot in Constantinople
Saint ID
S02118
Number in BH
BHG 955-956d
Reported Death Not Before
406
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Ascetics/monks/nuns
| ID | Title | E04907 | The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 4 August. | E06980 | The Greek Life of *Isaakios (late 4th c. abbot in Constantinople, ob. 383, S02118) recounts the struggles of the anchorite Isaakios who attempted to convert the emperor Valens to orthodoxy, and founded the first monastery of Constantinople under Theodosius I. He died on 26 May 383, and his body was buried by the altar of the shrine (martyrion) of *Stephen (the First Martyr, S00030) in Isaakios’ monastery. Written in Constantinople in the late 5th century, or later. | E08005 | The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor (AM 5870) describes how *Isaakios (late 4th c. abbot in Constantinople, S02118) miraculously perceived the death of the emperor Valens in the Battle of Adrianople in 378 by smelling the emperor's burning body from his prison cell in Constantinople. Chronicle compiled in the Byzantine Empire in the early 9th c., using extracts from earlier Greek texts. |
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