Schitopolis

Schitopolis este o localitate creștină importantă în epoca bizantină, capitală a provinciei Palaestina Secunda începând cu anul 409.

Personalități creștine din Schitopolis

Episcopi

Mai mulți episcop de Schitopolis sunt cunoscuți:

• Patropnilus, intimate friend of Arius and his adherents, assisted at the Council of Nicaea in 325 and at various councils of the Arians till 360. Cruel and fanatical, he ill treated the Catholic bishops exiled to Scythopolis, especially St. Eusebius of Vercelli. He was deposed by the Council of Seleucia in 359 and died soon after; his remains were desecrated by the pagans in 361.
• Philip and Athanasius, both Arians
• Saturninus, present at the Council of Constantinople in 381;
• Theodosius, friend of St. John Crysostom;
• Acacius, friend of St. Cyril of Alexandria;
• St. Servianus, killed by Monophysites in 452, honoured on 21 February;
• John, who wrote in defence of the Council of Chalcedon;
• Theodore, who about 553 was compelled to sign an anti-origenist profession of faith, still preserved (Le Quien, "Oriens christianus." III, 681-94).

Personalități

Printre personalitățile creștine ilustre din Schitopolis se numără:

• Sfântul mucenic Procopie (prăznuit la 8 iulie), care aparținea clerului cetății, după cercertările hagiologului ;
• Asterius, comentator al Psalmilor în secolul al IV-lea și citat cu laude de sfântul Ieronim;
• Sfântul Chiril din Schitopolis, monah și istoric al monahismului în Palestina vremii sale.

In the sixth century there were four churches at Scythopolis, dedicated to St. Thomas, St. John, St Procopius, and St. Basil, a local martyr. Many monks lived in the town and its environs, occupied in making baskets and fans from the palms in the neighboring forests (Sozomen, "Hist. ecclés.", VIII, 13); with them the four Tall Brothers took refuge when expelled from Egypt by the patriarch Theophilus for so called origenist ideas.

• Chiril din Shictopolis
• Ioan de Schitopolis

Surse

• http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_%281913%29/Scythopolis
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythopolis
• http://www.teologie.net/data/pdf/AC-introd-KS.pdf