E07959
Literary - Other narrative texts (including Histories)
Paschal Chronicle, s.a. 415
Καὶ ἐκομίσθη ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει διὰ τῆς Χαλκηδονησίας σκάλας λείψανα Ἰωσὴφ τοῦ υἱοῦ Ἰακὼβ καὶ Ζαχαρίου τοῦ πατρὸς τοῦ ἁγίου Ἰωάννου τοῦ βαπτιστοῦ μηνὶ γορπιαίῳ πρὸ ς' νωνῶν σεπτεμβρίων ἡμέρᾳ σαββάτῳ, βασταζόντων τὰ αὐτὰ λείψανα ἐv γλωσσοκόμοις δυσὶν Ἀττικοῦ πατριάρχου Κωνσταντινουπόλεως καὶ Μωσέως ἐπισκόπου Ἀνταράδου Φοινίκης, καθεζομένων αὐτῶν ἐν βουριχαλίοις· ἅτινα ἀπέθεντο ἐν τῇ μεγάλῃ ἐκκλησίᾳ, προπέμποντος Οὔρσου ἐπάρχου πόλεως καὶ πάσης τῆς συγκλήτου.
'And the remains of Joseph the son of Jacob, and of Zacharias, the father of St. John the Baptist, were conveyed to Constantinople by way of the Chalcedonian jetty, in the month Gorpiaeus, on day 6 before Nones of September [31 Aug.], a Saturday; the same remains were borne in two caskets by Atticus, patriarch of Constantinople, and Moses, bishop of Antaradus in Phoenicia, the two men sitting in carriages; these were laid to rest in the Great Church, with Ursus, city prefect, in attendance, and all the senate.'
Text: Dindorf 1832, 572-3.
Translation: Whitby and Whitby 1989, 64.
Anniversary of relic invention/translation
Cult PlacesCult building - independent (church)
RelicsBodily relic - unspecified
Transfer/presence of relics from distant countries
Transfer, translation and deposition of relics
Protagonists in Cult and NarrativesEcclesiastics - bishops
Officials
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
Whitby and Whitby 1989, 64, n. 218, suggest that the involvement in the translation of the bishop of Antarados in Syria may indicate that the relics had been discovered there.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 | S00277 | Joseph, Old Testament patriarch | Ἰωσὴφ | Certain | S00597 | Zechariah, father of John the Baptist | Ζαχαρίος | Certain |
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