Palladios

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Palladios von Helenopolis (Latin Palladius ; * around 364 in Galatia , † around 430 in Aspuna) was a Christian monk, writer and bishop .

Life

As a young man, Palladios went to Egypt around 390 to learn about the life of the monks. After staying with the Egyptian monks for about ten years, where he met Euagrios Pontikos (346–399 / 400), whom he called his teacher, Palladios left Egypt around 400 during the Origenistic disputes - for (pretended?) Health reasons (cf. with Johannes Cassianus , around 360–435). He traveled to Palestine, where he got to know the local monasticism, and went to Constantinople to see Bishop John Chrysostom (around 345-407), who appointed him Bishop of Helenopolis in Bithynia . From the followers of Theophilus of Alexandriaaccused of being an Origenist, he traveled to Rome in 405 to side with John Chrysostom with Innocent I , and there he took the hospitality of Melania . In the following year (406) he also took part in an embassy that campaigned for Chrysostom in Constantinople with Arcadios , the emperor of the Eastern Empire. Palladios was imprisoned for eleven months as his follower and then banished to Syene in Upper Egypt. After 412 Palladios stayed in Antinoë and Ankyra , in 417 he received the bishopric of Aspuna in Galatia.

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Palladios, preface to the Historia Lausiaca in the manuscript written in 992 Venice, Biblioteca Marciana, Gr. 346, fol. 127

In exile in Syene, Palladios wrote the Dialogus de vita Ioannis Chrysostomi around the year 408 , an account of the persecution of John Chrysostom. Around 420 he wrote the Historia Lausiaca on behalf of Lausos (or Lauson), eunuch and both chamberlain and head of the bodyguard of the emperors Arcadios and Theodosius II , the highest official of the Byzantine imperial court. In 71 chapters, Palladios describes his encounters and conversations with the early hermit monks in Egypt and Palestine and with their admirers and supporters.

expenditure

  • Palladius of Helenopolis Life of the Holy Fathers, translated from Greek by Dr. St. Krottenthaler, in: Library of the Church Fathers, Volume 5, Verlag der Josef Köselschen Buchhandlung, Kempten and Munich 1912.
  • Palladius: Historia Lausiaca - The early saints of the desert . Edited and translated by Jacques Laager, Manesse Verlag, Zurich 1987.

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SURNAME Palladios
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Palladius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Christian writer, bishop
DATE OF BIRTH at 364
PLACE OF BIRTH Galatia
DATE OF DEATH at 430
Place of death Aspuna