11th century, Constantinople by Eastern Orthodox Church
Feast
November 9/November 22
Attributes
Pen, Scroll, Religious habit
Major works
Menologium
Symeon or Simeon (died c. 1000), distinguished as Symeon Metaphrastes (Latin) or Symeon the Metaphrast (Greek: Συμεών ὁ Μεταφραστής, Symeṓn ho Metaphrastḗs), was a Byzantine writer and official regarded as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church. His feast day is celebrated on 9 or 28 November.[1][2] He is best known for his 10-volume Greek menologion, a collection of saints' lives.[3]
^Kazhdan, Alexander; Ševčenko, Nancy Patterson (1991). "Symeon Metaphrastes". In Kazhdan, Alexander (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-504652-8.
^Cross, F. L.; Livingstone, E. A., eds. (2009) [2005]. "Simeon Metaphrastes, St (fl. c. 960)". The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3rd rev. ed.). Oxford University Press.
^James Carleton Paget (2010). Jews, Christians and Jewish Christians in Antiquity. Mohr Siebeck. pp. 212ff. ISBN 978-3-16-150312-2. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
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