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Sophronius (Greek: Σωφρόνιος; Arabic: صفرونيوس; c. 560 – March 11, 638), called Sophronius the Sophist, [1] was the Patriarch of Jerusalem from 634 until his death. [2] He is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Churches. Before rising to the primacy of the see of Jerusalem, he was a monk and theologian ...
Mar 11, 2017 · Born in Damascus c. 550-560, by his mid-twenties Sophronius was already a noted teacher of rhetoric, so much so that in his companion John Moschus’ 6th-century collection of narratives on the ascetic life, the Leimonarion (The Spiritual Meadow), he is referred to as Sophronius the Sophist, a title that follows him through the Byzantine literature of the period until his enthronement as ...
Mar 11, 2021 · March 11, 2021 chicago Feast of St. Sophronius of Jerusalem, monk, theologian, and Patriarch. Called the Sophist, he wrote the Florilegium, the life of St. John the Almsgive, the life of St. Mary of Egypt and composed 23 anacreontic odes on the feasts of the church.
Finding them obdurate, Ammiras has their chief Callinicus and nine others beheaded on 11 Novebember 638 “outside the city in front of the gates,” where they are buried by Sophronius. The rest are sent back a month or so later to ‘Amr in Eleutheropolis and given a final chance to comply.
Mar 11, 2024 · After the death of Patriarch Modestus in December of 634, Sophronius was elected Patriarch of Jerusalem. Although no longer in the hands of the Persians, the Holy Land was now besieged by the armies of the newly-appeared religion of Mohammed, which had already taken Bethlehem; in the Saint's sermon for the Nativity of our Lord in 634, he laments that he could not celebrate the feast in Bethlehem.
Jul 12, 2012 · Heavy-hearted, Sophronius, the patriarch of Jerusalem, set out to meet the Caliph, the successor to the Muslim prophet Muhammad, at the gates of the Holy City. The surrender had already been ...
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Hence the execution of the 10 martyrs of Gaza at Jerusalem on either 6 November or 11 November 639 provides a firm terminus postquam for the death of Abu Ubayda, while the fact that Amr b. al-As dared to execute Sophronius without recourse to his supreme commander reinforces the present dating of the deaths of these martyrs in so far as it suggests that this post was actually vacant at the time.
