Who
Palestinian monk, bishop of Salamis in Cyprus from 367 and a tireless hunter of heresies. His Panarion (Medicine Chest) describes and refutes eighty heresies, among them the Antidicomarianites who denied Mary's perpetual virginity and the Collyridians who offered her cakes as to a goddess, and it records that Scripture says nothing of how her life ended. The chain quotes him for the perpetual virginity and for the earliest reflection on Mary's death.
Lineage
In the succession →See of Salamis, 367–403.
In Jewish Roots of Mary
Who
Bishop of Salamis in Cyprus and cataloguer of heresies. His Panarion condemns both those who worshipped Mary and those who insulted her — the two errors Pitre steers between.
Quoted works
- Panarion 78.23; 79.7–9 — against the Collyridians, who offered eucharistic bread (kollyra) to Mary: 'pure devil's work'; 'Mary is to be held in honor, but the Lord is to be worshiped!' — quoting Jeremiah on the queen of heaven (pp 87–88)
- Panarion 78.6.1 — the 'Insulters of Mary' (Antidikomarianites), who denied her perpetual virginity, guilty of 'a novel madness' (p 114)
Quoted in
Luke 10:21–22 · Luke 2:21 · Luke 2:42–50 · Luke 22:14–18 · Luke 6:1–5 · …