The Paschal Chronicle records that in 627, the former commander Bonus was buried in the monastery of *John the Baptist (S00020) 'of Stoudios', at Constantinople. Written in Greek at Constantinople, c. 630.
Evidence ID
E07980
Type of Evidence
Literary - Other narrative texts (including Histories)
Paschal Chronicle, s.a. 627
Τούτῳ τῳ ἔτει μηνὶ ἀρτεμισίῳ, κατὰ Ῥωμαίους μαΐῳ, ια' ἐτελεύτησε Βόνος ὁ τῆς ἀοιδίμου μνήμης, γενόμενος μάγιστρος, καὶ ἀπετέθη τὸ λείψανον αὐτοῦ εἰς τὸ σεπτὸν μοναστήριον τοῦ ἁγίου Ἰωάννου τοῦ προδρόμου καὶ βαπτιστοῦ τὸ ἐπονομαζόμενον τῶν Στουδίου, πλησίον τῆς Χρυσῆς Πόρτας.
'In this year in the month Artemisius, on May 11th according to the Romans, there died Bonus of celebrated memory, who had been magister, and his body was laid to rest in the revered monastery of St. John the Forerunner and Baptist, the one named that of Studius, near the Golden Gate.'
Text: Dindorf 1832, 726-7.
Translation: Whitby and Whitby 1989, 182.
Cult Places
Cult building - monastic
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
Bonus was a senior official and military commander under Heraclius, who was in charge of the defence of Constantinople during the siege of the city in 626 (Heraclius was absent fighting the Persians in eastern Asia Minor). He died in May 627, a few months after the siege.The monastery of St John of Stoudios (Stoudios was its founder, in the 5th century) was in the south-western part of Constantinople, near the city walls and the Golden Gate, through which passed the main highway to the west. See Janin 1969, 430-40.
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).
Further reading:
Janin, R., La géographie ecclésiastique de l'empire byzantin. I: Les églises et les monastères de la ville de Constantinople. (2nd ed.; Paris, 1969).
Record Created By
David Lambert
Date of Entry
03/09/2020
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00020 | John the Baptist | Ἰωάννης ὁ προδρόμος καὶ βαπτιστής | Certain |
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