Who
Abbot of the monastery of Theodosius who governed the Church of Jerusalem after the Persian sack of 614, rebuilt its ruined churches, and was patriarch from 632 until his death. An Encomium on the Dormition transmitted under his name is one of the earliest homilies to teach that Mary's body was preserved from corruption and taken to her Son; its authenticity has been questioned, but it belongs to the Jerusalem tradition of the seventh century.
Lineage
In the succession →See of Jerusalem, 630–634.
In Jewish Roots of Mary
Who
Patriarch of Jerusalem whose sermon on Mary's Dormition is among the earliest to link her being taken into heaven with the Ark of the covenant; cited by Pius XII.
Quoted works
- Encomium on the Dormition of Mary 4 — God 'summoned his ark of sanctification to be brought home from Zion to himself… She is not carried like Moses' ark of old, drawn by oxen, but she is escorted and surrounded by an army, heaven's holy angels' (p 63)