Welcome to the Jungle WAW#14

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St Chrysostom at Constantinople had 40 women deacons attached to the basilica of Hagia Sophia, as wel1 as 100 male deacons. From the correspondence of the Fathers we know a good many by name: Salvina, to whom St Jerome wrote; Macrina, the sister of St Basil the Great; Anastasia, an assistant of Severus Bishop of Antioch. We also have many epigraphic inscriptions, such as that of Theodora in Gaul (sixth century) and Sophia in Jerusalem (fourth century): “Here lies the servant and Virgin of Christ, the deacon, the second Phoebe.”