E07955
Literary - Other narrative texts (including Histories)
Pascal Chronicle
Paschal Chronicle, s.a. 362
Καὶ ἐν Παλαιστίνῃ δὲ τοῦ ἁγίου Ἰωάννου τοῦ βαπτιστοῦ λείψανα ἐv Σεβαστῇ τῇ πόλει κείμενα ἀνορύξαντες διεσκόρπισαν. Ἔτι δὲ καὶ τοῦ ἁγίου Πατροφίλου ἐπισκόπου τῆς ἐν Σκυθοπόλει ἐκκλησίας γενομένου ἀνορύξαντες ἀπὸ τοῦ τάφου τὰ λείψανα τὰ μὲν ἄλλα διεσκόρπισαν, τὸ δὲ κρανίον ἐφυβρίστως κρεμάσαντες ὡς ἐv σχήματι κανδήλας ἐνέπηξαν.
'And in Palestine they dug up and scattered around the remains of St. John the Baptist which lay in the city of Sebaste. Furthermore, they also dug up from the grave the remains of St. Patrophilus who had been bishop of the church in Scythopolis, and scattered the majority around, but the skull they insolently hung up and affixed as it were in the form of a lamp.'
Text: Dindorf 1832, 546.
Translation: Whitby and Whitby 1989, 37.
Burial site of a saint - tomb/grave
Rejection, Condemnation, SceptisismDestruction/desecration of saint's shrine
RelicsBodily relic - head
Bodily relic - entire body
Protagonists in Cult and NarrativesPagans
Source
The Chronicon Paschale (paschal or Easter chronicle) is a chronicle compiled at Constantinople in the first half of the 7th century. It covers events from the creation of the world up to the anonymous author's own time. The Chronicle probably concluded with the year 630 (see Whitby and Whitby 1989, xi), though the surviving text breaks off slightly earlier, in the entry for 628. The traditional name for the Chronicle originates from its introductory section, which discusses methods for calculating the date of Easter. The Chronicle survives thanks to a single manuscript, Vatican, Gr. 1941 (10th c.), on which all other surviving manuscripts depend. The only critical edition remains that of Ludwig Dindorf (1832).The chronicler uses multiple chronological systems to date events: Olympiads, consular years, indictions, and years from the Ascension, as well as using Roman, Greek, and sometimes Egyptian dates (see Whitby and Whitby 1989, x). Numerous literary sources are utilised for the period before the author's own time, including well-known historical sources such as Eusebius and John Malalas. We have not included entries for material in the Paschal Chronicle which simply reproduces material in earlier sources already entered in our database.
Discussion
The story about the profanation of the grave of John the Baptist appears in Theodoret, Ecclesiastical History 3.3 (E04153) and Philostorgius 7.4 (E04196). The story of the desecration of the grave of Patrophilos, former bishop of Skythopolis first appears here in the Chronicle.Bibliography
Edition:Dindorf, L., Chronicon Paschale (Bonn, 1832).
Translation:
Whitby, M., and Whitby, M., Chronicon Paschale 284-628 AD (Translated Texts for Historians 7; Liverpool, 1989).
David Lambert
01/09/2020
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00020 | John the Baptist | Ἰωάννης ὁ βαπτιστής | Certain | S02872 | Patrophilos, bishop of Scythopolis, Palestine | Πατρόφιλος | Certain |
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