The Byzantine John the Deacon (fl.
11th century) is the author of a tract on the veneration of saints and against the doctrine of soul sleep.
[1] He was one of several Byzantine writers who wrote on this theme, from Eustratios of Constantinople and Niketas Stethatos, to Philip Monotropos (Dioptra pp.
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