Sophronius of Jerusalem
Patriarch of Jerusalem from 634 to 638
Feast: 11 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Sophronius (Ancient Greek: Σωφρόνιος; Arabic: صفرونيوس; c. 560 – 11 March 638), called Sophronius the Sophist, was the Greek Patriarch of the city known as Aelia Capitolina and then Jerusalem from 634 until his death. He is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Churches. Before rising to the primacy of the See, he was a monk and theologian who was the chief protagonist for orthodox teaching in the doctrinal controversy on the essential nature of Jesus and his volitional acts. He is also renowned for the negotiation of the surrender of Aelia Capitolina to the Rashid caliph Umar in 637/8.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Connected on this site
- Maximus the Confessor Saint Pupil
- santiebeati.it - San Sofronio di Gerusalemme, Patriarca — Damascus c.550 - Jerusalem 639, feast 11 March. Pre-schism; the current Roman Martyrology also calls him 'il vescovo san Sofronio' in its 6 November entry on the martyrs of Gaza.
- Wikidata Q317773 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Sophronius of Jerusalem (CC BY-SA)
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