Cosmas of Maiuma
Cosmas of Maiuma | |
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Hagiopolites | |
Born | 8th century Damascus |
Died | 8th century Maiuma, Gaza |
Venerated in | Eastern Orthodox Church, Catholic Church |
Feast | October 14 |
Attributes | Vested as a bishop, or as a monk, holding a scroll with the words of one of his hymns |
Patronage | Hymnographers |
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Life
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Cosmas left the monastery in 743 when he was appointed Bishop of Maiuma, the port of ancient Gaza.[4] He outlived John by many years and died in great old age.
Works
As a learned prose-author, Cosmas wrote commentaries, or
In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Cosmas has been called "a vessel of divine grace" and "the glory of the Church."
The hymns of Cosmas were originally intended for the
The Eastern Orthodox Church observes his feast on October 12 (
See also
- Saints Cosmas and Damian, 3rd-century martyrs
Notes
- ^ Other sources give the dates of his life as ca. 675 - ca. 751. Kathryn Tsai, A Timeline of Eastern Church History (Divine Ascent Press, Point Reyes Station, CA, 2004), p. 144.
- ^ "Saint Cosmas the Hymnographer, Bishop of Maiuma", OCA
- ^ a b c Baumstark, Anton. "Cosmas". The Catholic Encyclopedia. New Advent. Retrieved 9 April 2011.
- ^ a b c Byzantine Music and Liturgy, E. Wellesz, The Cambridge Medieval History: The Byzantine Empire, Part II, Vol. IV, ed. J.M. Hussey, D.M. Nicol and G. Cowan, (Cambridge University Press, 1967), 149.
- ^ Alexander A. Bogolepov, The hymns of the Orthodox Church Archived 2005-06-22 at archive.today, Orthodox Hymns of Christmas, Holy Week and Easter. Accessed 2007-04-02.
- ^ Tsai, op. cit.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Cosmas". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
Bibliography
- Collections of hymns, varying in number, are attributed to Cosmas, and may be found in Jacques-Paul Patrologia Graecae(P.G.), XCVIII, 459-524, and in Christ-Paranikas, Anthologia graeca carminum christianorum (Leipzig, 1871), 161-204.
- For the above-mentioned scholia on the poems of Gregory of Nazianzus, see Cardinal Angelo Mai, Spicilegium Romanum, II, Pt. II, 1-375, and Migne, P.G., XXXVIII, 339-679.
- In general, see Krumbacher, Gesch. der byzantinischen Literatur (2d ed., Munich, 1896), 674 sqq.
- Alexander P. Kazhdan - Stephen Gero, “Kosmas of Jerusalem: a more critical approach to his biography,” Byzantinische Zeitschrift 82 (1989), pp. 122–132.
External links
- Kosmas the Hagiopolite Icon and brief life
- The Venerable Cosmas of Maiuma entry for October 12 in the Prologue from Ochrid by Bishop Nikolai Velimirovich