Paul of Latrus explained
Saint Paul of Latrus (or Paul of Latra; died) was a Greek hermit.His feast day is 20 December.
Life
Saint Paul of Latrus spent most of his religious life as a hermit on Mount Latrus near the city of Miletus in Caria (now western Turkey). He later founded a monastery on Mount Latrus.
He generally avoided the powerful and preferred the company of humble people, but he received letters from Tsar Peter I of Bulgaria, and wrote to the emperor urging the removal of Manichaeans from the territories of Kibyrrhaeotis and Miletus. A large number of disciples gathered around him, and to avoid them he moved to the island of Samos.
He died in 955 or 956.
Monks of Ramsgate account
The monks of St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate, wrote in their Book of Saints (1921),
Nikephoros the Monk
Paul of Latrus was mentioned in Nikephoros the Monk's work On Watchfulness and the Guarding of the Heart, which was later included in the Philokalia. He mentions that:[1]
Butler's account
The hagiographer Alban Butler (1710–1773) wrote in his Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, under July 1,
Further reading
- Book: Assemani, Giuseppe Simone . 1755 . Kalendaria Ecclesiæ universæ . 5 . 467f . la .
- Fleury tom. XII, 1. 55, n. 52
- Book: Hamilton . Janet . Hamilton . Bernard . St Paul of Latrus (d. 955/6) converts Paulicians near Miletus . Christian Dualist Heresies in the Byzantine World, C. 650-c. 1450: Selected Sources . Manchester University Press . Manchester medieval sources series . 1998 . 978-0-7190-4765-7 . https://books.google.com/books?id=uH-8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA113 . 113. Translated from
- Book: Hussey, Joan Mervyn . καθηγητρια: Essays Presented to Joan Hussey for Her 80th Birthday . Porphyrogenitus . 1988 . 978-1-871328-00-4 . 304–307.
- Book: Gaume, J. . The Catechism of Perseverance; Or, An Historical, Dogmatical, Moral, Liturgical, Apologetical, Philosophical, and Social Exposition of Religion: From the Beginning of the World Down to Our Own Days . M.H. Gill & son . 3 . 1884 . 400f.
- Book: Jugendspiegel für Jung und Alt in heiligen Lebensbildern aus allen Jahrhunderten: Die Zeit und die Ewigkeit, dargestellt mittelst bestätigter Begebenheiten : der Monat Dezember . Youth mirror for young and old in holy images of life from all centuries: Time and eternity, represented by means of confirmed events: the month of December . 2 . 1876 . de . 559–561.
- Book: Sirmondi, Jacob . Vita S. Pauli Iunioris in Monte Latro: cum interpretatione Latina . Bollandists . Analecta bollandiana: revue critique d'hagiographie . Société des Bollandistes . v. 11 . 1892 . https://books.google.com/books?id=0gzqziaIjUwC&pg=PA5 . la,el . 5–74,136–182. - Reprinting of Wiegand?
- Book: Thomas, John Philip . Fiaccadori . Gianfranco . Gianfranco Fiaccadori . Latros: Testament of Paul the Younger for the Monastery of the Mother of God tou Stylou on Mount Latros . Thomas . John Philip . Hero . Angela Constantinides . Constable . Giles . Byzantine monastic foundation documents: A complete translation of the surviving founders' typika and testaments . Washington, DC . Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection . Dumbarton Oaks Studies . 35 . 1 . 2000 . 978-0-88402-232-9 . https://books.google.com/books?id=huh3WG-sqtUC&pg=PA135 . 135ff.
- Book: Wiegand, Theodor . 1913 . Vita S. Pauli iunioris in monte Latro / Laudatio S. Pauli iunioris . Der Latmos . Milet: Ergebnisseder Ausgrabungen und Untersuchungen seit dem Jahre 1899 [Miletus: Results of the excavations and investigations since the year 1899] . 3 . 1 . G. Reimer / Königliche museen zu Berlin [Royal Museums in Berlin] . https://books.google.com/books?id=fAotAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA105 . el . 105–157.
- Book: Langdon . John Springer . Allen . Jelisaveta S. . To Hellenikon Studies in Honor of Speros Vryonis, Jr: Byzantinoslavica, Armeniaca, Islamica, the Balkans and modern Greece . Artistide D. Caratzas . 1993 . 978-0-89241-513-7 . 9, 21.
Notes and References
- Book: Palmer. G. E. H.. Ware. Kallistos. Kallistos Ware. Sherrard. Philip. Philip Sherrard. The Philokalia: The Complete Text. 4. 1999. Faber and Faber. 0-571-19382-X. 197–8.
