Sophronius Jerusalem
Sophronius of Jerusalem (or Greek / was born in Damascus to 550 and was the patriarch of Jerusalem from 634 until his death on 11 March 638 to Jerusalem (or 639 in Alexandria , historians are shared). Before being consecrated patriarch, he was a monk and a theologian, an ardent defender of orthodoxy as it was defined in the Council of Chalcedon in the dogmatic controversy on the essential nature of Jesus and his acts. Shortly before his death he had obtained from the Caliph Omar he enters the holy city as a pilgrim, not a conqueror.
Sophronius left numerous liturgical texts of the homilies of theological texts, hagiographic and poetic.
It is celebrated on March 11 among Catholics and March 11 of the Julian calendar in the orthodox (that is to say on March 24 in the Gregorian calendar ).
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Biography
Endowed with poetic talent, he was a brilliant student and became a sophist (teacher of rhetoric). It performs the pilgrimage to the Holy Land in order to venerate the holy sites and meet with ascetics living in monasteries and in deserts. He went to Judea in the monastery of St. Theodosius where he met his spiritual father and elder John Moschus , a Syrian monk as he who dedicated the Spiritual Meadow (in Greek : ho Leimonis Leimnon). They opposed the doctrine of monothelitism defended by the Emperor Heraclius , and sided with the apostles of Chalcedon. Sophronius wrote an anthology of writings of the Desert Fathers , now defunct.
In 578 , the two men decided to go to Alexandria to complete their training in philosophy and to meet the holy ascetics. They visit many monasteries between 578 and 584 they arrived in Egypt. Sophronius became the disciple of Stephen of Alexandria and the friend of the philosopher Theodore. It was then that Sophronius is affected by an eye disease which is cured by the intercession of saints moneyless Cyr and Jean ( celebrated January 31 ).
Among the pious elders met in Egypt, one of them they said: "Fly, my children, because the time is coming! Live in a cell where you want, live in sobriety and in the hesychia , praying constantly, and I hope that God will send his knowledge to enlighten your minds ... "Sophronius decided to renounce the world He returned and took the monastic habit in the monastery of St. Theodosius. Meanwhile, John Moschus visited the monasteries of Sinai , of Cilicia and Syria.
Later, accompanied by his friend columnist, Sophronius trip through the Asia Minor , the Egypt and North Africa , seeking to evangelize the various communities Monophysite who lived there. He also goes on pilgrimage to Rome in 620 , where his companion died Moschus. At that time Sophronius feared that Pope Honorius may be tempted to take a neutral position and dangerous to the Catholic doctrine. He sends Stephen of Dora while at the same time, in 634 , he succeeded Modest as the new patriarch of Jerusalem, a few years after the destruction and massacres perpetrated by the Persians.
Shortly after, he must face the invading Muslims destroyed many religious buildings and taking advantage of divisions among Christians. Witness the taking of Jerusalem by the armies of Caliph Omar in 637 , he holds an important role in the establishment of a peace treaty with the winners including negotiating a status of dhimmitude for the Christian population, Jewish and Zoroastrian. Depending on the version, he died in Jerusalem in 638 , or would have been forced to flee the city to Alexandria where he died in 639.
Sophronius left numerous liturgical texts, theological texts of homilies, hagiographic and poetic. In Poetry Anacreontic, including No. 19 and 20, it reflects the feelings that inspired him Jerusalem during one of his many travels. Through his poems, one can follow the lines the circuits of the most sacred places of Jerusalem in the late sixth century , the golden age of Christianity in the Holy Land.
Writings
- GIC 7635-7681.
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| Preceded by: Modest I. | Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem | Followed by: ? |
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