Event Factoid
https://spear-prosop.org/808-18Event Factoid: Simeon
called all of the children to him, divided them into two groups: the
first was shut away in a room and the children in the second group,
consisting of eighteen
boys and twelve girls, were initiated into the clerical
state by being tonsured.
Sources:
- E. W Brooks, trans.,Lives of the Eastern Saints I,Patrologia Orientalis 17.1 (1923), https://archive.org/stream/patrologiaorient17pariuoft#page/n7/mode/2up, p: 243.
