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Joseph the Hymnographer, Saint
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(816, Sicily – Apr 3, 886). Around 828, Joseph fled to the Peloponnese together with his family, because of the danger posed by the Arab Saracens. After becoming a monk and a priest in Thessalonica, he went to Constantinople in 840. On a journey to Rome in 841, where he had been sent to report concerning the Iconoclastic controversy (Veneration of images: VI), he was abducted to Crete by pirates. After his release, he returned to Constantinople where he worked intensely on hymnography. In 858 he was banished to Crimea, like his friend Ignatius of Constantinople, who had los…

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Theodorou, Evangelos, “Joseph the Hymnographer, Saint”, in: Religion Past and Present. Consulted online on 28 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1877-5888_rpp_SIM_10980>
First published online: 2011
First print edition: ISBN: 9789004146662, 2006-2013



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