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stitchwhichConstantine (c576) He was a king of Cornwall, son of Padarn, not the more famous Emperor Constantine. Today's Constantine, says legend, and was married to a Breton princess. When she died, he abdicated his throne and became a monk at Rahan (Ireland). There he performed menial tasks, was eventually ordained, and went as a missionary to Scotland, where he preached in Galloway and became abbot of a monastery at Govan. When Consantine was an old man, pirates attacked him and cut off his right arm. Having called his brethren about him, and blessed them, he gently bled to death. He is regarded as the first martyr of Scotland.
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Peter the Spaniard, hermit (date uncertain) His parents having insisted on his marriage, he yielded with great repugnance. The marriage ceremony took place, and when the banquet was over, he retired to the bridal chamber, where he saw the fair young girl who had given him her hand lying asleep on the bed. She looked so pure and innocent in her slumber that he gazed on her with reverence, and kneeling at her feet, prayed long and earnestly; and then stealing away, left the house, and fled the country.
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Sophronius of Jerusalem (d. 637 or 638) (also S. of Damascus, S. the Sophist) seems to have been of Damascene origin, born probably c560. After a brief time as a teacher of rhetoric he became a monk in Palestine, first at the New Lavra and then at the Theodosius Monastery at Bethlehem. It was as a monk of the latter that he accompanied his friend John Moschus (the author of the Spirtual Meadow) on his travels among the monks of Egypt and later at Rome and at Constantinople. Sophronius, who became patriarch of Jerusalem at age 74 in 634 after the Byzantine reconquest of the city, wrote sermons, hagiographical texts, and religious verse as well as theological attacks on monothelitism. He held a synod at Jerusalem, against the Monothelites, and drew up a synodal letter on that occasion which was sent to pope John IV. Not all of the writings that have come down under his name are genuinely his.
In 637 he led a spirited but hopeless defense of Jerusalem against a major Muslim siege and after several months arranged a surrender that is said to have given some protection to the Christian churches and to have guaranteed the city's Christians (at this point Jews were forbidden to reside in Jerusalem) what seems to have been essentially the same dhimmitude that Muslims were allowing to monotheists elsewhere during this conquest. Opinions vary as to whether Sophronius survived to die a refugee in Alexandria in the following year or instead were martyred in Palestine not long after the surrender.
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Peter the Spaniard, hermit (date uncertain) His parents having insisted on his marriage, he yielded with great repugnance. The marriage ceremony took place, and when the banquet was over, he retired to the bridal chamber, where he saw the fair young girl who had given him her hand lying asleep on the bed. She looked so pure and innocent in her slumber that he gazed on her with reverence, and kneeling at her feet, prayed long and earnestly; and then stealing away, left the house, and fled the country.
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Sophronius of Jerusalem (d. 637 or 638) (also S. of Damascus, S. the Sophist) seems to have been of Damascene origin, born probably c560. After a brief time as a teacher of rhetoric he became a monk in Palestine, first at the New Lavra and then at the Theodosius Monastery at Bethlehem. It was as a monk of the latter that he accompanied his friend John Moschus (the author of the Spirtual Meadow) on his travels among the monks of Egypt and later at Rome and at Constantinople. Sophronius, who became patriarch of Jerusalem at age 74 in 634 after the Byzantine reconquest of the city, wrote sermons, hagiographical texts, and religious verse as well as theological attacks on monothelitism. He held a synod at Jerusalem, against the Monothelites, and drew up a synodal letter on that occasion which was sent to pope John IV. Not all of the writings that have come down under his name are genuinely his.
In 637 he led a spirited but hopeless defense of Jerusalem against a major Muslim siege and after several months arranged a surrender that is said to have given some protection to the Christian churches and to have guaranteed the city's Christians (at this point Jews were forbidden to reside in Jerusalem) what seems to have been essentially the same dhimmitude that Muslims were allowing to monotheists elsewhere during this conquest. Opinions vary as to whether Sophronius survived to die a refugee in Alexandria in the following year or instead were martyred in Palestine not long after the surrender.
