medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Monday, March 8, 2010, at 3:11 pm, I wrote:
> 4) Theophylact of Nicomedia (d. 845). We know about T. (also T. of
> Constantinople) chiefly from a fairly full Bios written in about 870
> (BHG 2451) and from a shorter Bios with somewhat different content
> written in the late ninth or early tenth century (BHG 2452). A native
> of Asia Minor, he studied in Constantinople under the future patriarch
> St. Tarasius, who then sent him along with St. Michael of Synada to a
> monastery that he had founded. There the ascetic T. proved to be an
> exemplary monk and is said to have been rewarded with the gift of
> thaumaturgy. In about 800, Tarasius then being patriarch, T. became
> bishop of Nicomedia.
>
> As bishop, T. was a paragon of pastoral care, preaching against
> iconoclastic views, succoring the poor and the lame, and establishing
> from his funds a hospital with a staff of doctors and attendants in
> which he himself worked as an attendant one day a week. After the
> iconoclast emperor Leo V had come to power in 813 T. became the
> leading spokesman of the iconophile resistance, with the result that
> he was banished late in 814 or very early in 815 to a fortress in
> Caria, where he spent the remainder of his life in an exile of varying
> severity. His body was returned to Nicomedia for burial in about 846.
T. as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century (betw. ca. 1312 and 1321/1322) frescoes in the monastery church of the Theotokos at Gračanica in, depending on one's view of the matter, either Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija or the Republic of Kosovo:
http://tinyurl.com/yjvom4u
Best again,
JD
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