On Fri, 20 Dec 1996 12:05:57 GMT Bill East wrote
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> > > * Spiridion, bishop of Tremithus (fourth century)
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> > > A big man in Corfu,
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> Which is why almost every male in Corfu seems to be called Spiros, which is short for
> Spiridion. Oriens.
There was also a nineteenth-century artist named Spirid(i)one
Gambardella, of whom I wouldn't have heard if we didn't have his
portrait of Henry Brougham hanging in the decent obscurity of the
Senate House of the University of London :-)
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Abba Arsenius the Great
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