Palladius of Galatia
Palladio by Helenopolis (also: Palladius, * 364 in Galatia; † around 430 in Aspuna ) was a Christian monk, writer, and bishop.
Life
Palladio was a young man of about 390 to Egypt to explore the life of the monks. After about ten years of residence in the Egyptian monks, where he met Evagrius Ponticus ( 346-399/400 ), whom he called his teacher, Palladio left during Origen disputes - from ( advanced? ) Health reasons - to 400 Egypt ( cf. with John Cassian to 360-435 ). He traveled to Palestine, where he met the local monasticism and went to Constantinople Opel to Bishop John Chrysostom (c. 345-407 ), who appointed him bishop of Helenopolis in Bithynia. From the followers of Theophilus of Alexandria accused as Origenist, he traveled to Rome in 405 to take at Innocent I party for John Chrysostom, and where he took the hospitality of Melania to complete. He took the following year (406 ) even at an embassy in part, which began in Constantinople Opel with Arcadio, the Emperor of the Eastern Empire, for Chrysostom. Palladio was but as his followers imprisoned eleven months, and then exiled to Syene in Upper Egypt. After 412 then Palladio lived in Antinoë and Ancyra, 417 he received the bishopric of Aspuna in Galatia.
Work
In exile in Syene Palladio wrote about the year 408, the Dialogus de vita Ioannis Chrysostomi, a report of the persecution of St. John Chrysostom. To 420 he wrote the Historia Lausiaca on behalf of Lausos (or Lauson ), and both eunuch eunuch and chief of the bodyguard of the Emperor Arcadius and Theodosius II, the highest officials of the Byzantine imperial court. It Palladio describes in 71 chapters, his meetings and conversations with the early hermits in Egypt and Palestine and with their admirers and supporters.
Expenditure
- Palladius of Helenopolis life of the holy Fathers, translated from Greek by Dr. St. Krottenthaler, in: Library of the Fathers of the Church, Volume 5, published by the Joseph Köselschen bookstore, Kempten and Munich 1912.
- Palladius Historia Lausiaca - The early saints of the desert. Edited and translated by Jacques Laager, Manesseplatz Verlag, Zurich 1987.