Meletios the Younger
Meletios the Younger (c. 1035 – c. 1105), also called Meletios of Myoupolis, was a
feast is celebrated on 1 September.[1]
Biography
Meletios was born in the
hyperpyra from the Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.[1] He died in his monastery around 1105[1] or 1110.[2]
Two
Christian Arab.[2] He is the only one to mention a pilgrimage to Compostela in Spain.[3] Nicholas focuses more attention on Meletios' care for his monastic community, whom he protects from fire and whose gardens he defends from rabbits.[1]
Hagiographies
- Nicholas of Methone, "Vita sancti Meletii iunioris" [= BHG 1247], ed. Vasily Vasilievsky, Pravoslavnyi Palestinskii Sbornik VI (Saint Petersburg, 1866), pp. 1–39.
- —, "Bios tou hosiou patros hēmōn Meletiou tou en tō horei tēs Myoupoleōs askēsantos", in Iōannēs Polemēs (ed.), Hoi bioi tou hagiou Meletiou tou Neou (Athens: Ekdoseis Kanakē, 2018), pp. 30–150.
- Theodore Prodromos, "Vita sancti Meletii iunioris" [= BHG 1248], ed. Vasily Vasilievsky, Pravoslavnyi Palestinskii Sbornik VI (Saint Petersburg, 1866), pp. 40–69.
- —, "Bios tou hosiou patros hēmōn Meletiou tou Neou", in Iōannēs Polemēs (ed.), Hoi bioi tou hagiou Meletiou tou Neou (Athens: Ekdoseis Kanakē, 2018), pp. 152–254.
References
- ^ ISBN 0-19-504652-8.
- ^ a b c d e Johannes Pahlitzsch (2019), "Byzantine Monasticism and the Holy Land: Palestine in Byzantine Hagiography of the 11th and 12th Centuries", in D. Bertaina et al. (eds.), Heirs of the Apostles: Studies on Arabic Christianity in Honor of Sidney H. Griffith (Leiden: Brill), pp. 231–255, at 243–245.
- ^ a b Dorothy E. Abrahamse (1986), "Byzantine Views of the West in the Early Crusade Period: The Evidence of Hagiography", in Vladimir Peter Goss (ed.), The Meeting of Two Worlds: Cultural Exchange Between East and West During the Period of the Crusades (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications), pp. 189–200.
- ^ Symeon A. Paschalidis (2011), "The Hagiography of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries", in Stephanos Efthymiadis (ed.) The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography, Volume I: Periods and Places (New York and London: Routledge), pp. 143–172.
Further reading
- Armstrong, Pamela. The Lives of Meletios of Myoupolis. Master's thesis. Queen's University, Belfast, 1988.
- Armstrong, Pamela. "Alexios Komnenos, Holy Men and Monasteries". In Margaret Mullett and D. Smythe (eds.), Alexios I Komnenos: Papers of the Second Belfast Byzantine International Colloquium, 14–16 April 1989. Belfast: Belfast Byzantine Enterprises, 1996. pp. 219–231.
- Armstrong, Pamela; Kirby, Anthony. "Text and Stone: Evergetis, Christodoulos and Meletios". In Margaret Mullett and Anthony Kirby (eds.), The Theotokos Evergetis and Eleventh-Century Monasticism: Papers of the Third Belfast Byzantine International Colloquium, 1–4 May 1992. Belfast: Belfast Byzantine Enterprises, 1994. pp. 146–161.
- Messis, Charis. "Deux versions de la même ‘verité’: Les deux vies d'hosios Mélétios au XIIe siècle". In Paolo Odorico et al. (eds.), Les vies des saints à Byzance: genre littéraire ou biographie historique? Actes du IIe Colloque International Philologique Hermēneia, Paris, 6–7–8 juin 2002. Paris: Centre d’études byzantines, néo-helléniques et sud-est européennes, 2004. pp. 303–345.