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- ↑ Patrich, Sabas, p. 209.
- ↑ Patrich, Sabas, p. 239.
- ↑ Martin Hinterberger, "The Byzantine Hagiographer and His Text", in Stephanos Efthymiadis, ed., The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography, Volume II: Genres and Contexts (Ashgate, 2014), pp. 221–22.
- ↑ Patrich, Sabas, pp. 143–44.
