Lausiac History
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The Lausiac History (
Originally written in Greek, the Lausiac History was so popular it was soon translated into Arabic, Armenian, Coptic, Geʽez, Latin, Syriac and Sogdian.[3]
History
The book was popular among monks all over the East, who appear to have added to it considerably in transcribing it. The first edition was a Latin version by
Liturgical usage
In the
An extract from the introduction
"In the fourth and fifth centuries of our era Egypt had come to be regarded with great reverence throughout Christendom as a Holy Land of piety.[1]
"Pilgrims came from all parts to visit the saints who lived there, and several wrote descriptions of what they saw and heard, which are among the most interesting documents of the early Church. Palestine was so near that it was usually included in their tour; the glamour of its sacred sites, which remains with us still when that of Egypt has faded into oblivion, was already potent. But Palestine was clearly second to Egypt in the affections of the pilgrims.
"[As] expressed by
"Palladius, ... made a pilgrimage to this holy land, like so many others, and stayed there many years. ... The character of the man stands out clearly in the History, He was sincere, simple-minded and not a little credulous. His deep religious fervour, of the ascetic type, needless to say, appears throughout the book."
People
The Lausiac History contains descriptions and narratives of various monks, abbots, and saints, including:[12]
- Isidore
- Dorotheos
- Potamiainê
- Didymus
- Alexandra
- Amoun of Nitria
- Ôr
- Pambô
- Ammônios
- Benjamin
- Apollonius
- Paêsios and Isaiah
- Macarius the Younger
- Nathanael
- Macarius the Egyptian
- Macarius of Alexandria
- Moses the Ethiopian
- Paul
- Eulogius
- Paul the Simple
- Pachôn
- Stephen of Libya
- Valens
- Hêron
- Ptolemy
- Elijah
- Dorotheus
- Piamoun
- Tabennesi
- John of Lycopolis (Asyut)
- Poseidon
- Serapion Sindonios
- Evagrius Ponticus
- Piôr
- Ephraim
- Julian of Edessa
- Adolios
- Innocent
- Philoromos
- Melania the Elder
- Chronius and Paphnoutius
- Elpidius
- Sisinnius
- Gaddana
- Elijah
- Sabas
- Abram
- Silvania
- Olympia
- Candida and Gelasia
- Ammas Talis and Taôr
- Colluthus (virgin and martyr)
- Melania the Younger
- Pammachius
- Juliana
- Hippolytus
- Count Verus
- Magna
See also
Bibliography
- Palladius of Galatia (1907). . Translated by Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge. Chatto & Windus.
- Meyer, Robert T. Palladius: The Lausiac History. ACW 34. New York: Newman Press, 1965; reprint: Paulist Press.
- Vivian, Tim. "Coptic Palladiana I: The Life of Pambo." Coptic Church Review 20, no. 3 (1999): 66–95.
- Vivian, Tim. "Coptic Palladiana II: The Life of Evagrius." Coptic Church Review 21, no. 1 (2000): 8–23.
- Vivian, Tim. "Coptic Palladiana III: The Life of Macarius of Egypt." Coptic Church Review 21, no. 3 (2000): 82–109.
- Vivian, Tim. "Coptic Palladiana [IV]: St. Macarius of Alexandria." Coptic Church Review 22, no. 1 (2001): 2–22.
References
- ^ a b Introduction, in public domain Section source.
- ^ Lausiac History. (2011). In Encyclopædia Britannica.
- ^ Eric Orlin, ed., Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions (Routledge, 2016), p. 526.
- ^ Paris, 1555, reprinted by H. Rosweyde ("Vitæ patrum", VIII, Paris, 1628).
- ^ "Auctarium bibliothecæ Patrum", IV, Paris, 1624.
- ^ "Monumenta eccl. græcæ", III, Paris, 1686; reprinted in Patrologia Graeca, XXXIV, 995-1260.
- ^ "Paradisus Patrum", ed. Bedjan, "Acta martyrum et sanctorum", VII, Paris, 1897; tr. E. A. Wallis Budge, "The Paradise of the Fathers", 2 vols. London, 1907.
- ^ Weingarten, "Der Ursprung des Mönchtums", Gotha, 1877, and others.
- ^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. .
- ^ [1] Archived 2011-07-26 at the Wayback Machine "Archbishop Averky Liturgics — The Peculiarities of Daily Lenten Services — Lenten Matins", Retrieved 2011-08-03
- ^ Типико́нъ сіесть уста́въ (Title here transliterated into Russian; actually in Church Slavonic) (The Typicon which is the Order), Москва (Moscow, Russian Empire): Синодальная типография (The Synodal Printing House), 1907, p. 407
- OCLC 930781978.
External links
- W. K. Lowther Clarke (1918). The Lausiac History Of Palladius. The Macmillan Company. Retrieved 2015-08-16. html
- The Paradise Of the Holy Fathers: Volumes 1 & 2
The Lausiac History public domain audiobook at LibriVox
- 3 Palladius: historia lausiaca, etc. at OPenn