Epiphanius the Wise (d.1420) was a monk from Rostov, hagiographer and disciple of Saint Sergius of Radonezh.^[1] Events May 21 - Treaty of Troyes. ... St. ... Rostov (Russian: Росто́в; Old Norse: Rostofa) is one of the oldest towns in Russia and an important tourist centre of the so called Golden ring. ...

He wrote hagiographies of both Saint Stephen of Perm and St. Sergius. The latter, The Life of Sergii Radonezhsky, he started to write a year after the death of Saint Sergius according to his own memories. He finished the writings 26 years after the death of Sergius, i.e., around 1417-1418. There was a rewriting of the work by Pachomius the Serb (Пахомий Серб), which is usually more readily available. Saint Stephen on his way to Moscow, a medieval Russian illumination. ... Events Antipope Benedict XIII is deposed, and Pope Martin V is elected. ... Events May 19 - Capture of Paris by John, Duke of Burgundy September - Beginning of English Siege of Rouen Mircea the Old, ruler of Wallachia dies and is succeeded by Vlad I Uzurpatorul. ...

Epiphanius was interested in portraying an idealized account of sanctity, and did so through lengthy panegyrics. His literary style was given the name pletenie sloves, or "the weaving of words", and is marked by an abundance of neologisms, in which Epiphanius liked to form a large number of noun or adjective-noun combinations. A Panegyric is a formal public speech delivered in high praise of a person or thing, a generally high studied and undiscriminating eulogy. ... This article cites very few or no references or sources. ... Noun or noun substantive is a lexical category which is defined in terms of how its members combine with other grammatical kinds of expressions. ... talea harris and sophie king are sluts In grammar, an adjective is a word whose main syntactic role is to modify a noun or pronoun (called the adjectives subject, giving more information about what the noun or pronoun refers to. ...

Serge Zenkovsky hails Epiphanius' writings as "a new page in Russian literary history".^[2] It is often thought that Epiphanius' new style was influenced by the contemporary surge in Russian painting,^[3] and it has been noted that Epiphanius was a great admirer of Theophanes the Greek.^[4] Theophanes (died 817 or 818) was a Byzantine monk and chronicler. ...

Epiphanius travelled extensively in the East, and is known to have visited Constantinople and the Mount Athos monastery complex. Map of Constantinople. ... Capital Karyes Official languages Koine Greek and Church Slavonic (both liturgical); Modern Greek, Russian, Serbian, Georgian, Bulgarian, Romanian (civil use) Government  -  Head of State2 Dora Bakoyannis  -  Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I Area  -  Total 390 km²  150 sq mi  Population  -   estimate 2,250  Demonyms: Athonite, Hagiorite (English); Αθωνίτης, Αγιορίτης (Greek). ...

He died bearing the ranks of a hieromonk and a confessor of the Troitse-Sergiyev monastery. A hieromonk in Eastern Orthodoxy is a monk and the priest at the same time. ... The title confessor is used in the Christian Church in two separate ways. ... Troitse-Sergieva Lavra (Троице-Сергиева Лавра) is a famous Russian monastery and is the historical monumental symbol of Orthodoxy (at one period in time it was the center of the Russian Orthodox Church). ...

Works

• The Life of Sergii Radonezhsky, Житие преподобного Сергия
• Слово похвально преподобному отцу нашему Сергию
• Житие св. Стефана Пермского
• Сказание Епифания мниха о пути в святой град Иерусалим (attributed to Epifaniy)

Notes

References

• Martin, Janet, Medieval Russia, 980-1584, (Cambridge, 1995), pp. 230, 232
• Zenkovsky, Serge A. (ed.), Medieval Russia's Epics, Chronicles, and Tales, Revised Edition, (New York, 1974), pp. 259-89