narratives of Benedict planning the manuscript project - Procopius Dendrinos

Steven Avery · Sep 17, 2025

CARM
https://forums.carm.org/threads/the...os-and-kapodistrias.19212/page-3#post-1875989

Journal of Sacred Literature (1863)
https://books.google.com/books?id=_bYRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA215

Benedict…. he consulted with the herald Procopius an[d] the Russian monk Paul, and they decided upon a copy of the Old and New Testaments, written according to the ancient form, in capital letters, and on parchment.

This was some years before the travels from Athos to Constantinople and Antigonus

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This is the December 16th, 1863, version of events after his anomalies and anachronisms had bèen pointed out and highly criticized.
Show the earliest version of who exactly Benedict "consulted with" about this alleged Bible gift...

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Steven Avery · Sep 17, 2025

Actually this is the same as the Sept 3, 1862 Guardian account published in October, 1862 in the Journal of Sacred Literature

Journal of Sacred Literature - Oct 1862
Miscellanies
http://books.google.com/books?id=n4AtAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA250

“About the end of the year 1839, the venerable Benedict, my uncle, spiritual head of the monastery of tho holy martyr, Panteleemon, in Mount Athos, wished to present to the Emperor Nicholas I., of Russia, some gift from the sacred mountain, in grateful acknowledgment of the presents which had, from time to time, been offered to the monastery of the martyr. Not possessing any- thing which he deemed acceptable, he consulted with the herald Procopius and the Russian monk Paul, and they decided upon a copy of the Old and New Testaments, written according to the ancient form, in capital letters, and on parchment.