Palladios
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.
plant
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.
literature
- Bruno W. Häuptli : Palladios of Helenopolis. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 24, Bautz, Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 3-88309-247-9 , Sp. 1149-1154.
- Palladius in the Catholic Encyclopedia (English)
Web links
- Literature by and about Palladios in the catalog of the German National Library
- Online text from Krottenthaler's German translation of the Historia Lausiaca
personal data | |
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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 |