Saint Theophanes the Chronographer

Memorial

• 12 March

Profile

Educated at the Byzantine imperial court. Married layman. Both he and his wife entered religious life. Founded two monasteries. Abbot at Mount Migniana abbey. Wrote a Chronography, a sort of abstract of history from 284 to 813. Arrested, tortured, and exiled to Samothrace by Leo the Armenian for opposing iconoclasm.

Born

• Constantinople

Died

• 12 March 817 of natural causes

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Exchange
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson

MLA Citation

• “Saint Theophanes the Chronographer”. Saints.SQPN.com. 12 March 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-theophanes-the-chronographer/>