medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Today (13. September) is the feast day of:
John Chrysostom (d. 407) John was a native of Antioch who studied
rhetoric before becoming a hermit in c. 374. He ruined his health
with the harsh life he led and went home to join the secular clergy,
becoming so famous as a preacher that he got his nickname
("chrysostom"= golden-mouthed). J. was named patriarch of
Constantinople in 398, where his outspokenness and reforming zeal won
him many important enemies. Empress Eudoxia managed to get J.
exiled, and the effort to get J. back to his patriarchate exercised a
large number of bishops all over the empire---which only got J. moved
from a comfortable banishment in Trier to Pityus at the far end of
the Black Sea---and to make it even worse, he died on his way there.
J. was vindicated by being declared a doctor of the church at the
Council of Chalcedon in 451.
Maurilius (d. 453) The Milanese Maurilius moved to Gaul and became a
disciple of St. Martin (my source says Martin ordained M---who must
have lived to a *very* old age then, since Martin died in 397). M.
became bishop of Angers in 423. He has a good "fish" story: M. tried
to abandon Angers for Britain, throwing the cathedral key overboard
as a gesture---but a fish jumped into his boat with the key in its
stomach, making it plain that M. had to go back home.
Eulogius of Alexandria (d. c. 607) Eulogius was a Syrian monk and
abbot who became patriarch of Alexandria in 579. He was a friend of
Gregory the Great and is now mostly known from Gregory's
correspondence; E. wrote on a variety of heretics, but little of his
work is extant.
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