Benedict info from McGrane to Cooper

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imaginary twice
fantasies
Prodromus
Tischendorf and czar
Antoniada Academy

Kaposistrias

monastery. He was known especially in the south Aegean as a teacher on Poros in the 1820s, and
originally from Syme. This proved far more difficult to ascertain from England in the 1860s. The lie


Maybe you got confused by the Kevin McGrane confusions in the Bill Cooper book.
that it was his (imaginary) uncle Benedict's idea to make it a gift for the Tsar twenty years previously.p. 52

McGrane acknowledged he only meant "imaginary" to apply to whether he was specifically the Uncle of Simonides. -
Terrible writing.

Uspensky also mentions the late hierodeacon Benedict. p . 63
Then there is the account of monk Parfeny Ageev, (Aggeev) who was at the Panteleimon monastery at exactly the same time as Simonides (1839-41), and wrote copious details (published in 1855) about hegumen Gerasim and hierodeacon Benedict. Parfeny twice records that Benedict was 106 years on his last appearance before his death,152 and thus Benedict was about 90 years the senior of Simonides. Simonides' Simonides' tale that Benedict was his mother's brother was thus patent nonsense,153 and the alleged family relationship was in any case contradicted by many witnesses. p. 64-65

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In fact, it is recorded that both Benedict and Prokopios Dendrinos at the St Panteleimon monastery were trained at the Athoniada Academy on Mount Athos in the mid-1750s, which requires that Benedict was born no later than the 1730s, which is consistent with his being 106 in 1840. p. 65
And as for the hegumen Gerasim, it has never before crossed his mind, nor we trust, by the help of God, will he in future ever entertain the idea of making forged manuscripts. Benedict, who died in 1841, was neither Simonides' uncle, nor a relative, but only a compatriot.159
198 In 1843 Benedict had been dead only a very few years and the Greek readership around the Aegean
at that time would easily be able to establish that Benedict had never been hegumen of the Rossikon
monastery. He was known especially in the south Aegean as a teacher on Poros in the 1820s, and
originally from Syme. This proved far more difficult to ascertain from England in the 1860s. The lie
that Benedict was the hegumen of the Panteleimon monastery appears in a letter from Simonides to
The Athenaeum (issue December 21,1861, p.849): '[M]y late uncle...Benedict, the confidential adviser
and spiritual father of John Capo-dTstrias; and after his death, Superior of the Monastery St.
Panteleimon (Rosicon), in Mount Athos'. Kapodistrias died in 1831, and, as we have proved, Gerasim
was hegumen continuously from 1821 to 1875. The lie that Benedict was Simonides' uncle (mother's
brother) goes back at least to 1841, however, as Amphilocius ( Amphilochius ) attests. It was a 'plausible lie' since both
Benedict and Simonides' mother Maria hailed from Syme.
 
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Uspensky also mentions the late hierodeacon Benedict. p . 63
Benedict ... was known especially in the south Aegean as a teacher on Poros in the 1820s, and originally from Syme.
Antoniada Academy
Kaposistrias

monk Parfeny Ageev, (Aggeev)

p. 66

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Footnote 156 - p. 66
In the Allgemeine Zeitung article, Tischendorf made the very telling observation that the codex that Simonides claimed to have written (i.e. Codex Sinaiticus) could never have been commissioned by the Panteleimon monastery as a suitable gift for the Tsar because 'in the New Testament alone the Sinaitic text...contains many such readings which in a copy destined as a present to the orthodox emperor must appear gross heresies.' Uspensky had for years been making such warning comments about the Codex; for example on March 6,1862 Uspensky in an interview with the Tsar and the Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna pointed out that 'the New Testament contained in this manuscript was rewritten from the publication of the heretic Apollinarius, the Laodicean bishop, and...it is unseemly for the emperor, as patron, defender and guardian of Orthodoxy, unsuitably to give Christian churches prints from this Testament.'

P. Uspenskij, Книга бытия моего. Дневники и автобиографические записки (St Petersburg, 1894-1902). Vol IV.


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P. Uspenskij, Kniga bytija moego. Dnevniki i avtobiograficeskija zapiski episkopa Porfirija Uspenskago. Izdanie Imperatorskoj Akademii Nauk* pod redakcieju P. A. Syrku Ipostumj, 8 vols
(St Petersburg, 1894-1902). Vol IV.


Uspensky, Книга бытия моего. Дневники и автобиографические записки (St Petersburg, 1894-1902).






fantasies
(iv) The 'review' improbably refers to Simonides (who in 1843 was still a teenager
with only elementary reading and writing skills who had been expelled
dishonourably from school just the year before) as 'The most learned and in all
things noble patriot K. Simonides, the nephew worthy of the famous Benedict, and
the successor to his wisdom'. This merely showcases Simonides' fantasies.


Prodromus
180 Including Benedict and Dionysius at the Panteleimon monastery; the patriarchs Anthimus and Constantius, which latter was said to have referred to 'your truly valuable transcript... of the pastoral writings of Hermas'; John Prodromos 'who perused it with attention' and 'many persons' as well in 1841; presumably also Germanus, who conveyed it to Sinai; Kallinikos who saw it in several times at Mt Athos and Mt Sinai; hieromonk Callistratus, who 'undertook the comparison of it', and who 'inspected it in the common library', plus anyone else who cared to examine it in the library, not to mention the 'two' librarians.
 
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