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ARTESSIANO (Small town) KARDITSA
1913 - 1998
ENOS (Ancient city) THESSALIA
Argyrus, Isaac, a Greek monk, who lived about the year A. D. 1373. He is the author of a considerable number of works, but only one of them has yet been published. viz. a work upon the method of finding the time when Easter should be celebrated (paschalios kanon), which he dedicated to Andronicus, praefect of the town of Aenus in Thessaly. It was first edited, with a Latin translation and notes, by J. Christmann, at Heidelberg, 1611, and was afterwards inserted by Petavius in his " Uranologium" (Paris, 1630, fol., and Antwerp, 1703, fol.), with a new Latin translation and notes; but the last chapter of the work, which is contained in Christmann's edition and had been published before by Jos. Scaliger, is wanting in the " Uranologium." Petavius inserted in his " Uranologium" also a second " canon paschalis" (iii. p. 384), which he ascribes to Argyrus, but without having any authority for it. There exist in various European libraries, in MS., several works of Argyrus, which have not yet been printed.
DRAKOTRIPA (Village) KARDITSA
He was born in Drakotrypa.
MONI AGIAS TRIADAS (Monastery) KARDITSA
Birth Land
SKOPELOS (Small town) NORTH SPORADES
SKIATHOS (Small town) NORTH SPORADES
He was the son of Epifanios Dimitriadis and was born in Skiathos in
1802. He studied in Constantinople and in Paros where he became a monk and was
named Daniel instead of Dametrios which was his christening name. From 1828 to
1830 he taught Greek in Skiathos and then he returned to Paros where he set up
a boarding school. He left that place after his quarrel with the bishop of the
island and went to Agio Oros (Mount of Athos) where he became a great priest and
was named Dionysos. From1836 to 1841 he stayed in Fanari (in Constantinople) after
being invited by the Ecumenical Patriarch Gregorios the 6th to act as his ecclesiastical
counsellor.
In August 1841 he returned to Skiathos and became a monk in the monastery
of Panagia Kounistra which he renovated on his own expenses. The monastery became
a real centre of monk life under his supervision and it obtained social and religious
brilliance. In 1852 he was obliged to leave Skiathos and went to Hydra where he
was invited by Athanasios Miaoulis. He stayed there until 1882 when at an old
age he returned to Skiathos. On the hill of Profitis Elias he built a three-floor
structure intending to use it as a school. Unfortunately he did not manage to
fulfil this dream because he died on 30th December 1887.
Dionysios is a member of the last Kollyvathes (The Kollyvathes were
monks from the Mout of Athos. They were in disagreement with the other monks as
to the day of performing memorial services since they supported Saturday instead
of Sunday ). He was a clergyman with a broad education and wherever he went his
presence remained indelible. Unfortunately he left no written work apart form
two epigrammatic inscriptions on the fountains of the monastery in Kounistra.
Undoubtedly he belongs to the nation's teachers like his father.
This text is cited Sep 2002 from the Municipality of Skiathos URL below, which contains image.
THESSALIA (Region) GREECE
Georgius Lecapenus, a monk of Thessaly, who lived about the middle of the fourteenth century, and
wrote on grammar and rhetoric. A treatise, Peri suntaxeos ton rhematon, De Constructione
Verborum, was printed at Florence A. D. 1515 and 1520, and at Venice, by Aldus
Manutius and Asulanus A. D. 1525, with the Greek grammar of Theodore Gaza. In
the printed editions the work is said to be by George Lecapenus; but Allatius,
on the authority of several MSS., claims it as the work of Michael Syncellus of
Jerusalem. Some works of George Lecapenus remain in MS. Among them are: 1. A Grammar,
or rather Lexicon of Attic Words, in alphabetical order. 2. An Exposition of the
Enchiridion of Epictetus. 3. A treatise On the Figures of Homer. 4. A History.
5. A Poem, in Iambic verse. 6. Several Letters. He also made a selection of the
Letters of Libanius.
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