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Xenophon of Robeika
- ... that when his vita was lost, the life story of Xenophon of Robeika had to be rewritten?
--evrik (talk) 20:07, 10 May 2024 (UTC).
- Wow, I love this hook. Article is long enough and 5x expanded as of today, Earwig finds no copyvio, sourcing looks good and I'm AGFing on the languages I can't read (DeepL translation shows me it lines up). Hook is cited, again AGF because I can't be certain, given that I can't read Russian, and your QPQ is good. Zanahary (talk) 21:47, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
- @AirshipJungleman29: This saint's day is June 28. Would you mind dropping this in the SOHA for that day? --evrik (talk) 18:54, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
- @Evrik and Zanahary: please could you double check the source for the hook? I found it online via Academia.edu here. My reading is that Ankudinov thinks that there was only oral tradition before the 18th-century vita. After discussing two 17th century documents, the sentence on pages 86 and 87 says "Возможно, это свидетельствует о том, что к этому времени текст Жития Ксенофонта еще не сложился, и среди населения бытовали лишь устные предания о преподобном. [Perhaps this indicates that by this time the text of the Life of Xenophon had not yet been formed, and only oral traditions about the saint existed among the population. via Google translate]". TSventon (talk) 16:02, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
- @TSventon: how about:
- Alt1 ... that the life story of Xenophon of Robeika was written centuries after his death?