medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Today (27. December) is the feast day of:
John the Evangelist (d. c. 100) John the apostle, brother of James
and son of Zebedee, traditionally regarded as the author of the
fourth gospel and Revelation.
Fabiola (d. 399) Fabiola was one of the patrician Roman ladies who
hung around St. Jerome. She was devoted to very large-scale charity,
giving much of her fortune to churches, founding a hospital in Rome
(the first recorded Christian hospital in the west), etc. In 397 she
went to visit Jerome at Bethlehem, but eventually moved back to Rome.
Nicarete (d. c. 410) Another wealthy woman, this time in
Constantinople. She nursed the poor, was well known for her modesty,
and suffered persecution because she supported John Chrysostom (she
seems to have been driven into exile in the end).
Theodore and Theophanes (d. 841 & 845) T and T were brothers, born
in Kerak. They grew up in Jerusalem and both became monks at St.
Sabas. They were the lucky ones chosen by the patriarch of Jerusalem
to go tell the emperor to stop his iconoclast policies. The emperor
was not amused: he had them flogged and sent to a cold,
ill-provisioned island at the mouth of the Black Sea. They were
released when Emperor Leo died, but soon scourged and banished again
by a new iconoclast emperor. After two years they were brought to
Constantinople, and when they still persisted in their stand, the
emperor had 12 lines of specially-composed iambic verse carved onto
their faces (a process that took two days). Then they were banished
again. When iconoclasm ended, Theophanes became bishop of Nicaea.
Both brothers are called "Graptoi"---"the written-on."
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