Vita Zotici

This study has so far demonstrated that later Byzantine sources associated Zotikos with two philanthropic institutions the Orphanotro-pheion on the acropoHs of Constantinople and a leprosarium at Elaiones in Pera. Although the Vitae Zotici describe only the leprosarium, one version does mention an administrative connection between the leper asylum and the Orphanage. According to this account, the... 

In sum, a comparison of what the Vitae Zotici reveals about Zo-tikos s ascetic life in Constantinople and what other sources say concerning Marathonios s movement therefore indicates a relationship between Zotikos s philanthropic program and the larger monastic movement supported by Bishop Makedonios. 

The oldest extant version of the Vita Zotici (fi om the eleventh century) refers to the first Orphanage director as ZCOTIXOO TOO nT X0TQ6qX)0 (Aubineau. "Zoticos, p. 71). See also Philes, poem 43 (pp. 47-48). 

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