medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 21:11:34 -0700
Phyllis Jestice <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>26. September is the feast day of:
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>Nilus (d. 1005) Nilus was a Greek born in Calabria. He became a treasury
>official, but became a monk in time. He became famous for his austerity,
>holiness, and erudition, besides as a composer of hymns.
>
This is Nilus the Younger, probably better known as Nilus of Rossano. The founder in very old age of what became the famous Greek abbey of Grottaferrata near Rome, he died on 26 September 1004 at a small, also Greek monastery in the vicinity shortly after the monks of his community had arrived from their previous home at Serperis (now Serapo) in the duchy of Gaeta to begin work on the new foundation. Much earlier in his monastic career he had learned calligraphy, which he subsequently taught: some specimens of his and his students' scribal work still survive. Most of the hymns referred to in his anonymous Life (a truly impressive document of Italo-Greek monastic ideals) are not now extant. From his period at Vallelucio (now Valleluce; 981-994 or 95), a daughter house lent to his community by Montecassino's abbot Aligern, come an office in Greek for St. Benedict and perhaps most of his other remaining verse. Best, John Dillon
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