Paterikon

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Paterikon (Russia, 1758).

A paterikon (Greek: πατερικόν; pl .: paterika ) is the short form for πατεριχόν βιβλίον ("book of the father") and a separate genre of Byzantine religious literature, in which sayings of saints, martyrs and church heads as well as legends about them are compiled .

Some of the first of these compilations are the Apophtegmata of the Holy Starzen (Αποφθέγματα των άγίων γερόντων; also known as the Alphabetical Paterikon ); the Apophtegmata Patrum ; the sayings of the desert fathers ; the Egyptian Paterikon (also: Historia Monachorum in Aegypto or History of the Monks in Egypt ) and the Λαυσαϊχόν ( Historia Lausiaca ) of Palladios from the 4th century. Various paterica have also been translated into different languages, including a. into Latin, Coptic, Armenian etc. a.

In the Russian Orthodox Church , this genre has been known since the earliest Slavic literature, with translations and later original texts being made in various monasteries.