Conjurske on Amphilocius communication - (confirms Benedict and Constantius)

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Codex Sinaiticus: Ancient or Modern?
by Glenn Conjurske
http://straitegate.com/olde/?a=view&y=1998&m=7

Amphilocius of Pelusium
“During my residence in Odessa in the house of the sister of the late General Alexander Sturtza, the Countess K. Etling, she returned from Constantinople about the 1841 or 1842, whither she had gone some time before, bringing with her the person of whom we speak, Constantine Simonides, whom she had taken under her care from Constantinople at the request of the Reverend Archimandrite Procopius Dendrinos, and afterwards, with the consent of her said late brother, Alexander Sturtza, introduced him to the Greek school in that place, as having then a slight knowledge of the rudiments of our ancient Greek language, and there he took lessons for some few months.

“After a short residence at Syme, Simonides went to visit Anthimos, the renowned Patriarch of Constantinople, and brought him recommendations from several of the principal persons of Athos, and especially one from Procopius,...
 

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EARLY RECOGNITION OF ATHOS AND BENEDICT

Simonides, who assured me many times that he had lived in the sacred Russian monastery on the holy Mount Athos, and that the Reverend Deacon Benedict of that place was his uncle;
also that this Benedict had sent him to study, and that on the conclusion of his studies he should return immediately to the holy mountain in order to become a monk, and afterwards a preacher, with other like things.



 
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