Three Byzantine Saints

Publication Data: Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1977
Format: softcover
Number of Pages: xvi + 275
Dimensions (l × w × h): 21.6 cm × 14.0 cm × 2.1 cm
ISBN: 978‒0‒913836‒44‒6

   
Contemporary Biographies translated from the Greek by Elizabeth Dawes and Norman H. Baynes

“East Roman asceticism took many forms and we have sought to illustrate that diversity in the choice of biographies to be translated. St. John the Almsgiver was the Patriarch of Alexandria in a time of crisis during the early years of the seventh century; St. Theodore the Sykeote represents life amongst the peasantry of Anatolia at the end of the sixth century, while Daniel, the pillar saint, brought to the neighbourhood of Constantinople the peculiar form of the ascetic life which St. Simeon had devised for himself in Syria. Daniel, stationed on the European shore of the Bosphorus, is in close touch with the Patriarch, with successive emperors and with the people of the capital.”
—“INTRODUCTION”

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
I ST. DANIEL THE STYLITE
   INTRODUCTION
   HIS LIFE
   NOTES
II ST. THEODORE OF SYKEON
   INTRODUCTION
   HIS LIFE
   NOTES
III ST. JOHN THE ALMSGIVER
   INTRODUCTION
   HIS LIFE
   SUPPLEMENT
   NOTES