Lazarus

St. Lazare
Lazarus out of his tomb by Juan of Flanders (1500)
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Lazarus ( he : El azar, God has helped) is a character from the origin of Christianity , appearing in the New Testament and the Eastern and Western legends of early Christian history.

According to the Gospel of John , Lazarus was a friend of Jesus , brother of Martha and Mary. They lived in Bethany, a village on the eastern slope of Mount of Olives. He that Christ would have risen, making it out of his tomb. You can read this passage in the Gospel of John , in chapter 11.

After his resurrection, the chief priests Caiaphas and Anne had tried to kill him again (John 12:10).

Very few commentators see a link with the parable of the rich man and Lazarus in Luke 16.

The Western tradition

Legend has it that after the death of Christ, the Jews have embarked in a boat to Provence with his sisters Martha and Mary of Bethany and several others. These five witnesses of Christ in accosting Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer , he departed from his side evangelize Marseille he became the first bishop and patron. This legend translation by water used to make connections between various shrines: the Abbey of Saint-Victor de Marseilles , the basilica of Saint Mary Magdalene in Saint Maximin la Sainte Baume , the Cathedral St. Lazare of Autun , the abbey of the Trinity Vendome collecting the relic of the Holy Tear of Lazarus ^{The Eastern tradition}

Icon of the thirteenth ^century,
St. Catherine's Monastery in Sinai.

Another tradition, reported by Ephrem the Syrian , recounts that after Pentecost , Lazarus, risen, joined the apostles and has come to Cyprus to work of evangelization. St. Pierre would have invested the first bishop of Kition and he lived another eighteen years after his resurrection before dying like everyone else.

The fact is that his tomb is still venerated in Larnaca , a city which is the seat of the bishopric current Kition. In ^the seventh century , the inhabitants had to flee their devastated city and settle nearby, west of the salty lagoon. The new town was called Kition, as the ancient city. Only the tomb of Lazarus had remained on the old site was called "Larnax", the relic, or in Modern Greek "Larnaka," the relics. The city kept this name due to the relic when the inhabitants of Lazarus rintgrrent the original site of their city and Kition is a village, however with a very rare Byzantine mosaics that we have remained before the destruction iconoclasts.

The Emperor Leo VI the Wise ( 886 - 912 ) had a great reverence for St. Lazare. He built at Constantinople a church in his name and placed the body of the saint that he had ordered to get to Larnaca. That's probably where the relic was taken in 1204 to be transported to the West.

Festivals:

• The Lazarus Saturday brand in Eastern Christianity, the end of Lent. It precedes the Palm Sunday celebrates the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem and the beginning of Holy Week.
• On 17 October (translation of his relics from Cyprus to Constantinople).

Bibliography

• The silence of Lazarus Jean-Marc Rouvire , Descle De Brouwer, 1996.

Lazarus in the literature

If Lazarus, the first raised, according to the evangelical tradition, finally occupies very little space in the New Testament , his literary posterity is remarkable, the Middle Ages to the present. Of edification of the faithful, in The Mystery of the Passion of Arnulf Grban , and much later in Bossuet , he became such in Victor Hugo a figure of people on and seeking to free themselves from oppression. But occurrences of the Gospel figure are much more numerous: the reference is obvious yet risen in the Hugo's novel Les Miserables , through the figure of Jean Valjean , in the Dumas 's novel The Count of Monte Cristo ; through the the eponymous character, or in Balzac and Colonel Chabert. But it is undoubtedly in the works of Zola that the figure of Lazarus is the most present, even becoming an obsessive figure. The theme of the character comes alive and constantly buried in novels and short stories of writer, correspondent, by his own admission, a recurring nightmare.

In Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky , the hero Raskolnikov is also, somehow resurrected, but inside, thanks to Sonia. The latter, on request of Raskolnikov, he also reads this passage from the Bible in the fourth chapter of Part Four.

Lazarus also makes a fleeting appearance in a dialogue of the novel Malpertuis the Belgian writer Jean Ray , where the abbot said Doucedame death she was "jealous of his property, what Jean-Jacques replied:" She has had to let him escape Lazarus. "

Other references to Lazarus

In medicine, we talk about the Lazarus syndrome to describe the specific psychological difficulties faced by a subject who, believing himself condemned (by cancer), enjoys a remission or complete recovery. Also cited was the sign of Lazarus to describe certain reflex movements of patients in a state of brain death.

In zoology, the Lazarus taxon includes species presumed extinct and then suddenly reappeared.

In the video game Mass Effect 2 , the project aimed to bring the Commander Shepard to life is called the Lazarus Project.

In the movie Casper , the machine created by the father of Casper to resurrect the ghosts is called the Lazarus.

In Season 4 of the series Supernatural , when the first episode "Lazarus Rising", a character is miraculously resurrected.

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