Gregory of Cyprus (monk)
Gregory of Cyprus was a Persian monk, mystic and writer of the Church of the East.[1] Born at Ahvaz in the 6th century, he spent a period of exile working as a gardener for a Greek Orthodox monastery on the island of Cyprus.[2] He afterwards settled on Mount Izla.[1]
Gregory had a reputation for receiving visions.[2] His known writings, all in Syriac, include:
- Chapters on Prayer[3]
- Treatise on the Monastic Life, of which only the seventh and last book, "On Divine Contemplation", survives[4]
- three letters, one to a disciple named Epiphanios[1]
Gregory is sometimes misidentified as the author of the Revelation of Saint Gregory.[5] Gregory's writings were also used in the Syriac Orthodox Church.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b c d Brock 2018.
- ^ a b Pirtea 2018, p. 358.
- ^ Pirtea 2018, p. 369.
- ^ Brock 2018. Pirtea 2018, p. 369, appears to call this work Eight Memre and give the surviving chapter as the seventh of eight.
- ^ Perczel 2013, p. 349.
Bibliography
- Brock, Sebastian (2018) [2011]. "Grigorios of Cyprus". In Sebastian Brock; Aaron M. Butts; George A. Kiraz; Lucas Van Rompay (eds.). Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition. Beth Mardutho [Gorgias Press]. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
- Perczel, Istvan (2013). "The Revelation of the Seraphic Gregory Found in Two Indian Manuscripts" (PDF). Adamantius. 19: 337–358.
- Pirtea, Adrian (2018). "The Mysticism of the Church of the East". In Daniel King (ed.). The Syriac World. Routledge. pp. 355–376.