The Paschal Chronicle records that in 612 Epiphania Eudocia, the daughter of the emperor Heraclius, was crowned in an oratory of *Stephen (the first martyr, S00030) in the palace at Constantinople. Written in Greek at Constantinople, c. 630.
E07985
Literary - Other narrative texts (including Histories)
Paschal Chronicle, s.a. 612
Καὶ τῇ δ' τοῦ ὑπερβερεταίου μηνός, κατὰ Ῥωμαίους ὀκτωβρίου μηνός, ἰνδικτιῶνος α', ἡμέρᾳ δ', ἐστέφθη τὸ παιδίοv Ἐπιφανία ἡ καὶ Εὐδοξία εἰς τὸν ἁγίον Στέφανον εἰς τὸ παλάτιv. καὶ καθεσθεῖσα εἰς δίφρον, παρακολουθούντων Φιλαρέτου κουβικουλαρίου καὶ χαρτουλαρίου καὶ Συνέτου καστρησίου, ἀπῆλθε πρὸς συνήθειαν εἰς τὴν μεγάλην ἐκκλησίαv.
'And on the 4th of Hyperberetaeus, the month October according to the Romans, in indiction 1, a Wednesday, the child Epiphania, who was also called Eudocia, was crowned in St. Stephen in the Palace. Seated in a chariot and escorted by Philaretus the cubicularius and chartularius and by Synetus the castrensis, she departed as is customary to the Great Church.'
Text: Dindorf 1832, 703.
Translation: Whitby and Whitby 1989, 154.
Cult building - dependent (chapel, baptistery, etc.)
Protagonists in Cult and NarrativesMonarchs and their family
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.
Discussion
Epiphania Eudocia was the daughter of Heraclius. She was aged one at the time: the Chronicle records her birth on 7 July 611. The crowning bestowed the rank of Augusta. Here the palace chapel where she was crowned is referred to simply as 'St Stephen', but in the account of the same event by Theophanes (E08041) it is described as an oratory (eukterion). See Janin 1969, 473-4.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).
David Lambert
04/09/2020
| ID | Name | Name in Source | Identity | S00030 | Stephen, the First Martyr | Στέφανος | Certain |
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