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Marcus Diadochus
The Catholic Encyclopedia
or (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 1:1; Hebrews 1:3; Psalm 109:3-4; John 14:6, 23, etc., and answers difficulties from Mark 13:32; 10:10; Matthew 20:23 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.
P.G. LXV. 1141-1212; JUNGMANN-FESSLER, Institutiones Patrologiae (Innsbruck, 1896), IIb, 147-148; CHEVALIER, bio-Bibl., s.v.
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Obstat, Nihil. Lafort, Remy, Censor. Entry for 'Marcus Diadochus'. The Catholic Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/tce/m/marcus-diadochus.html. Robert Appleton Company. New York. 1914.
