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SOPHRONIUS

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 429 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SIV-SOU
SOPHRONIUS , Greek " sophist " and theological writer, was born at Damascus. For many years he was a monk in the monastery of Theodosius, near Jerusalem, removed to Alexandria, whence he was driven cut by the advance of the Persians, and finally settled in Palestine, where he became (634) successor of Dlodestus in the patriarchate of Jerusalem. After his
elevation
  he showed himself a staunch supporter of orthodox principles and one of the most determined opponents of the Monothelites. In 636, when Jerusalem surrendered to the Arabs under Omar, he succeeded in obtaining important con-cessions for the Christians in the exercise of their
worship
 . He did not long survive the capture of the city, and after his death the see remained unfilled for 29 years. Sophronius was a prolific writer, both in
prose
  and verse, in various departments of literature. His
chief
 
work
  is a long account of the Egyptian saints and martyrs Cyrus and John, and of the miraculous cures effected by them, valuable for its information concerning the topography of
Egypt
 . The Life of Mary of
Egypt
 , who abandoned immorality for a life of the strictest
penance
  in Palestine for 48 years, is generally attributed to him. He was also the author of anacreontic odes, hymns, and epigrams.
Works in J. P. Migne, Patrologia graeca, lxxxvii., and
list
  in Fabricius, Bibliotheca graeca, ix. 162; see also L. de St Aignan, Vie de Sophronius (Orleans, 1884) ; C. Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897); and for Sophronius and Omar, Gibbon, ch. 51.


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