Gregory of Cyprus (monk) explained

Gregory of Cyprus was a Persian monk, mystic and writer of the Church of the East. Born at Ahvaz in the 6th century, he spent a period of exile working as a gardener for a Greek Orthodox monastery on the island of Cyprus. He afterwards settled on Mount Izla.

Gregory had a reputation for receiving visions. His known writings, all in Syriac, include:

• Chapters on Prayer
• Treatise on the Monastic Life, of which only the seventh and last book, "On Divine Contemplation", survives^[1]
• three letters, one to a disciple named Epiphanios

Gregory is sometimes misidentified as the author of the Revelation of Saint Gregory. Gregory's writings were also used in the Syriac Orthodox Church.

Bibliography

• Encyclopedia: Sebastian . Brock . Sebastian Brock . Grigorios of Cyprus . Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition . Sebastian Brock . Aaron M. Butts . . Lucas Van Rompay . Beth Mardutho [Gorgias Press] . 2018 . 2011 . 21 February 2024.
• Istvan . Perczel . 2013 . The Revelation of the Seraphic Gregory Found in Two Indian Manuscripts . Adamantius . 19 . 337–358 .
• Book: Pirtea, Adrian . The Mysticism of the Church of the East . The Syriac World . Routledge . 2018 . Daniel King . 355–376.

Notes and References

1. ., appears to call this work Eight Memre and give the surviving chapter as the seventh of eight.