Theodoret of Cyrrhus in a letter to the bishop of Antioch Theodotos mentions a festival of martyrs at the town of Meninga (north-east Syria). Written in Greek at Cyrrhus (north Syria), 423/429.
Evidence ID
E03497
Type of Evidence
Literary - Letters
Major author/Major anonymous work
Theodoret of Cyrrhus
Theodoret of Cyrrhus, Letters
Collectio Patmensis 45
(…) Ἡνίκα μὲν γὰρ παρεγένετό σου ἡ ὁσιότης οὐκ ἔγνων· τῇ δὲ τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτῃ, τῶν καλλινίκων Μαρτύρων ἐν Μηνίγγοις τὴν πανήγυριν ἐπιτελῶν ἤκουσα τοῦτο θρυλούντων. (…)
'When your holiness was visiting, I was unaware. On the fourteenth, while celebrating the festival of the rightly victorious martyrs at Meninga, I heard people mentioning it.'
Text: Azéma 1955. Translation: Efthymios Rizos.
Festivals
Saint’s feast
Protagonists in Cult and NarrativesEcclesiastics - bishops
Source
Theodoret was born in Antioch in 393, where he received a formidable education before joining the monastery of Nikerte near Apamea in 416. In 423, he was consecrated as bishop of Kyrrhos/Cyrrhus. During the theological debates of the time, he emerged as one of the chief exponents of Antiochene Christology. The Second Council of Ephesus in 449 deposed him as a supporter of Nestorius, of whom he was indeed a friend. He was restored by Chalcedon in 451, after being forced to condemn Nestorius. Soon after, he returned to Nikerte and is thought to have died in c. 460.The 232 letters of Theodoret’s correspondence are divided and published in three sets:
1) 147 letters first printed by Jacques Sirmond in 1647 and reprinted in volume 83 of Migne’s Patrologia Graeca (collectio Sirmondiana).
2) 47 letters preserved in a codex of the Patmos Monastery, and published in 1885 by Ioannis Sakellion (collectio Patmensis).
3) 36 letters, dating from 431-437, which were included in the document collections concerning the Council of Ephesus in 431.
A critical edition with French translation and notes by Yvan Azéma is available in the Sources Chrétiennes series: vols. 40 (the Patmos collection), 98 and 111 (the Sirmondian, in two volumes), and 429 (the Council of Ephesus letters).
Bibliography
Text, French translation, and commentary:Azéma, Y., Théodoret de Cyr. Correspondance I (Sources chrétiennes 40; Paris: Éditions du Cerf, 1955).
Record Created By
Efthymios Rizos
Date of Entry
06/12/2017
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00060 | Martyrs, unnamed or name lost | Certain |
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