Anastasius the Persian
Anastasius the Persian († January 22, 628 in Bethsaloe in Persia ), also called Anastasios , was a monk and martyr and is a saint of the Catholic Church and Orthodoxy . During the Second Council of Nicaea he was canonized and his cult was allowed.
Life
Anastasius was born under the name Magundat as the son of a Persian skinny . He served the Persian Great King Chosrau II as a soldier in the cavalry and fought in the war against the Eastern Roman Empire . He was involved in the conquest of Jerusalem under General Farrukhan, known as Schahrbaraz , during which the Holy Cross was captured by the Persian troops.
He is said to have been moved to convert to Christianity through the oppression of the Christians under Chosrau II and through the captured Holy Cross. He left the military, was baptized by the later Patriarch of Jerusalem Modestos 620 and entered the Anastasios monastery near Jerusalem as a monk. Due to a vision he left the monastery seven years later and went to Caesarea Maritima , where he was seized by the Persians and imprisoned.
martyrdom
He was taken to Bethsaloe in Persian captivity. There he was tortured to make him turn away from Christianity. Finally, on January 22nd, 628, he and seventy other Christian prisoners were hanged and his body was beheaded. After that, the body is said to have been thrown to dogs, but they are said not to have touched the body.
Saints and Relics
His relics were first brought to the Sergios Monastery of Bethsaloe, then transferred to Jerusalem in 631. According to tradition, his body is said to have been transferred to Constantinople by Honorius I and then, according to Beda Venerabilis , to Rome , where the remains are in the church of S. Vinzenzo ed Anastasio , in the Roman quarter of Fontana di Salvio. The head was spent by Emperor Heinrich III. 1047 from Rome to the Speyer Cathedral . After it was looted at the end of the 18th century, it was transferred to Lichtenthal Abbey . From there, Bishop Nikolaus von Weis brought it back to Speyer in 1851 , where it is now kept in the Cathedral's Chapel of St. Catherine.
Until the last reform of the saint calendar , his Catholic feast day was January 22nd. In the Menologion of Basil II (around 1000) his transfer to Constantinople is shown.
He is considered the patron saint of goldsmiths and is invoked against headaches and against rage.
literature
- Bernard Flusin: Saint Anastase le Perse et l'histoire de la Palestine au début du VIIe siècle . Center National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-222-04554-1 (Vol. 1: Les textes , Vol. 2: Commentaire ).
- Carmela Vircillo Franklin: The Latin dossier of Anastasius the Persian. Hagiographic translations and transformations . Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto 2004, ISBN 0-88844-147-9 .
- Ekkart Sauser : Anastasios the Persian. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 14, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-073-5 , Sp. 707.
Web links
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Individual evidence
- ^ Dennis O'Neill: Passionate Holiness: Marginalized Christian Devotions for Distinctive Peoples , Trafford Publishing, 2010, ISBN 1426925050 , p. 37; (Digital scan to Bethsaloe / Kirkuk)
- ↑ Website on Christianity in Iraq, with its own section on St. Anastasius (English)
- ^ Franz Xaver Remling : History of the Bishops of Speyer , Volume 1, p. 179, Mainz, 1852; (Digital scan)
- ^ Sermon by Vicar General Josef Damian Szuba on the 950th anniversary of the death of Emperor Heinrich III., 2006, with reference to the head of St. Anastasius in the Speyer Cathedral
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Anastasius the Persian |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Anastasios |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Martyrs and saints of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 6th century or 7th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 628 |
| Place of death | Bethsaloe , Persia |