Pachomius the Serb
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Pachomius the Serb (
hagiographer who, after taking monastic vows, was schooled on Mount Athos and mastered the ornate style of medieval Serbian literature.[1]: 166–177 He is credited by the Russian Early Texts Society for the Serbian version of Barlaam and Josaphat from Old Greek.[2]
In the 1450s and 1460s he resided at the
Novgorod where he prepared a set of the lives of local saints. It has been suggested that The Tale of the Princes of Vladimir was also authored by Pachomius.[3]
Life
He arrived in
Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra north of Moscow, where he composed the Life of Sergius of Radonezh, the founder of that monastery. He returned to Novgorod under Archbishop Jonah (1458–1470) and composed the Lives of several Novgorodian bishop-saints, including those of Elias (John) and Euthymius II. He later composed the Life of Archbishop Moses of Novgorod sometime shortly after 1484. He died sometime thereafter.[1]
: 167–168
Works
Pachomius is believed to have written eleven saint's lives (zhitie), including those of
Metropolitan Jonah of Moscow.[1]
: 168
Legacy
A Serbian Orthodox Church monastery is named after him in Greenfield, Missouri.
See also
- Lazar of Hilandar(also known as Lazar the Serb)
- Teodosije the Hilandarian (1246-1328), one of the most important Serbian writers in the Middle Ages
- Saint Archangels Monastery
- Agiou Pavlou monastery
- Lazar the Hilandarian(fl. 1404), the first known Serbian and Russian watchmaker
- Elder Siluan
- Miroslav Gospel
- Gabriel the Hilandarian
- Constantine of Kostenets
- Cyprian, Metropolitan of Kiev and All Rus'
- Gregory Tsamblak
- Isaija the Monk
- Kir Stefan the Serb
- Grigorije of Gornjak
- Stanislav of Lesnovo
- Hieromonk Pahomije
- Atanasije (scribe)
- Rajčin Sudić
- Dimitar of Kratovo
- Nicodemus of Tismana
- Marko Pećki
- Lav Anikita Filolog
References
- ^ D. S. Likhachev, Slovar’ knizhnikov i knizhnosti Drevnei Rusi, vol. 2, Pervaia polovina XIV-XVI v., pt. 2.
- ^ History of Prose Fiction. G. Bell and Sons. 1896.
- ^ Dunlop, John Colin (1896). "History of Prose Fiction".
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