Pope Martin I, in two letters written in 649/655, refers to a monastery dedicated to *Theodosios (the Coenobiarch, ob. 529, S01325) in Palestine. Letters written in Rome, probably in Greek.
Evidence ID
E06883
Type of Evidence
Documentary texts - Letters
Pope Martin I, Letter 5 (Migne) (JE 2064/JH ?3360)
Throughout this letter to John, bishop of Philadelphia (modern Amman, Jordan), Martin makes reference to the monastery of St Theodosius. He states that he sent letters with the abbot and several monks from the monastery. These monks attended the Lateran Council and would bear its decisions eastwards.
Pope Martin I, Letter 8 (Migne) (JE 2067/JH ?3363)
In this letter to George, the abbot (archimandrite) of the monastery of St Theodosius, Martin praises him for defending the Roman see and encourages him to obey the abbot of Philadelphia.
Text: Patrologia Latina 87.
Summary: Frances Trzeciak.
Cult Places
Cult building - monastic
Places Named after SaintMonastery
Source
These letters of Pope Martin I (649-655) survive in a group of letters by Martin which are appended to the Greek, but not the Latin, acts of the Lateran Synod of 649, held to condemn the doctrine of Monotheletism which had been adopted in the Eastern Empire (see e.g. E08045). The letters are addressed to the emperor Constans II and to various churches and individual churchmen in the Empire (or, as in this instance, parts of the Empire that had just been conquered by the Arabs), and deal with matters arising from the synod. No early Latin text of the letters survives and it is likely that they were originally written in Greek (Price et al. 2014, 393-4). There is no modern edition.On the letters, see Price et al. 2014, 389-91, 394-7; Booth 2017, 295-7.
Discussion
The George to whom Letter 8 was addressed is perhaps the same George as the one referred to in the Prologue to the Spiritual Meadow. This text describes George receiving the remains of John Moschus, the author of the Spiritual Meadow.Bibliography
Edition:Migne, Patrologia Latina 87, 153-164 and 167-168.
Further Reading:
Booth, P., Crisis of Empire: Doctrine and Dissent at the End of Antiquity (Berkeley, 2017).
Price, R., with P. Booth and C. Cubitt, The Acts of the Lateran Synod of 649 (Translated Texts for Historians 61; Liverpool, 2014).
Record Created By
Frances Trzeciak and David Lambert
Date of Entry
20/09/2022
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S01325 | Theodosios the Coenobiarch, ob. 529 | Theodosius | Certain |
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