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Nov. nj S.Theodore of the Studium. 267
He was born about 758. His father Theodore had been
secretary to the emperor Constantine Copronymus, had
been accused of honouring images, had frankly avowed that
he did so, and had been banished. He was recalled from
exile, and tortured, and then banished again, to Nicsea,
where he died. His wife Eudoxia, who had followed him,
educated the young Nicephorus, their son, with great care.
She finally embraced the monastic life, when his education
was complete and he no more needed her guardian influence.
Nicephorus exercised the office of secretary to Constantine
Porphyrogenitus and Irene. He had acted as such in the
Second Council of Nicaea. He was learned ; a rhetorician,
mathematician, and philosopher; pious,—he had founded a
monastery in a desert spot, and retired to it when relieved
of the stress of his official duties. He was humble, a lover
of prayer and mortification. It was from his monastery that
he was brought to receive the metropolitan throne from the
emperor. His hair was cut off by the hands of Stauracius
the Caesar, the son of the emperor; he received all orders
by accumulation. During his consecration he held in his
hand a paper which contained a statement of his faith and
devotion to the cause of images, and this he placed in a
receptacle behind the altar, as a witness to his orthodoxy.
In 806, Joseph, abbot of S. Michael's, who had given the
nuptial benediction to Constantine and Theodota, gained
the favour of the Emperor Nicephorus by acting as mediator
between him and Bardanes, the Turk who had assumed the
imperial title. As a return for the favour he had afforded
the emperor, he was recalled, and the patriarch Nicephorus,
thinking that he had been sufficiently punished for what he
had done, allowed him to resume his offices, and his conduct
was sanctioned by a synod of fifteen bishops.
forget looking among the abbots and recluses. Disappointed ambition may have
influenced their opposition.
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| Title | The lives of the saints - 13 |
| Creator | Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine) |
| Publisher | J. Grant |
| Place of Publication | Edinburgh |
| Date | 1914 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000321 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | ft ft Nov. nj S.Theodore of the Studium. 267 He was born about 758. His father Theodore had been secretary to the emperor Constantine Copronymus, had been accused of honouring images, had frankly avowed that he did so, and had been banished. He was recalled from exile, and tortured, and then banished again, to Nicsea, where he died. His wife Eudoxia, who had followed him, educated the young Nicephorus, their son, with great care. She finally embraced the monastic life, when his education was complete and he no more needed her guardian influence. Nicephorus exercised the office of secretary to Constantine Porphyrogenitus and Irene. He had acted as such in the Second Council of Nicaea. He was learned ; a rhetorician, mathematician, and philosopher; pious,—he had founded a monastery in a desert spot, and retired to it when relieved of the stress of his official duties. He was humble, a lover of prayer and mortification. It was from his monastery that he was brought to receive the metropolitan throne from the emperor. His hair was cut off by the hands of Stauracius the Caesar, the son of the emperor; he received all orders by accumulation. During his consecration he held in his hand a paper which contained a statement of his faith and devotion to the cause of images, and this he placed in a receptacle behind the altar, as a witness to his orthodoxy. In 806, Joseph, abbot of S. Michael's, who had given the nuptial benediction to Constantine and Theodota, gained the favour of the Emperor Nicephorus by acting as mediator between him and Bardanes, the Turk who had assumed the imperial title. As a return for the favour he had afforded the emperor, he was recalled, and the patriarch Nicephorus, thinking that he had been sufficiently punished for what he had done, allowed him to resume his offices, and his conduct was sanctioned by a synod of fifteen bishops. forget looking among the abbots and recluses. Disappointed ambition may have influenced their opposition. ft ft |
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