Marcus, Diadochus
Marcus Diadochus
(Markos ho diadochos)
An obscure writer of the fourth century of whom nothing is known but his name at the head of a “Sermon against the Arians”, discovered by Wetsten in a manuscript codex of St. Athanasius at Basle and published by him at the end of his edition of Origen: “De oratione” (Basle, 1694). Another version of the same work was lent by Galliciollus to Galland and published in the “Veterum Patrum Bibliotheca”, V (Venice, 1765-1781). This is the text in P.G., LXV, 1149-1166. The sermon quotes and expounds the usual texts, John, i, 1; Heb., i, 3; Ps. cix, 3-4; John, xiv, 6, 23, etc., and answers difficulties from Mark, xiii, 32; x, 10; Matt., xx, 23 etc.
A quite different person is Diadochus, Bishop of Photike in Epirus in the fifth century, author of a “Sermon on the Ascension” and of a hundred “Chapters on Spiritual Perfection” (P.G., LXV, 1141-1148, 1167-1212), whom Victor Vitensis praises in the prologue of his history of the Vandal persecution (Ruinart’s edition, Paris, 1694, not. 3). The two are often confounded, as in Migne.
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P.G. LXV. 1141-1212; JUNGMANN-FESSLER, Institutiones Patrologiae (Innsbruck, 1896), IIb, 147-148; CHEVALIER, bio-Bibl., s.v.
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Marcus, Diadochus
who flourished probably in the 4th century, was the author of a short treatise entitled , Beati Marci Diadochi Sermo contra Arianos, published with a Latin version by Jos. Rudolph. Wetstenius, subjoined to his edition of Origen, De Oratione (Basle, 1694, 4to; reprinted with a new Latin version in the Bibliotheca Patsrumn of Galland, v. 242). See Fabricius, Bibl. Graeca, 9:266 sq.; Cave, Hist. Litt. ad ann. 356, 1:217; Galland, Biblioth. Patrum, Proleg. ad vol. v, c. 14; Smith, Dict. of Greek and Romans . Biog. and Mythol. s.v.