• John Moschus (Greek: Ἰωάννης Μόσχος, c. 550 – 619; name from the Ancient Greek: ὁ τοῦ Μόσχου, romanized: o tou Moschou, lit. 'son of Moschos'), surnamed...
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    numerous attestations of them in Christian literature; for instance, John Moschus dedicated a work called the Spiritual Meadow to Palestinian monks, where...
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    last reference to Byzantine Petra comes from the Spiritual Meadow of John Moschus, written in the first decades of the 7th century. He gives an anecdote...
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    goods of the church of Constantinople. Two Egyptian solitaries told John Moschus a story which is also recorded by Theodorus Lector. The church of Saint...
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  • spirituale, Leimonarion Λειμωνάριον, or New Paradise) is a Greek book by John Moschus (d. 619 or 634) written in the late sixth to early seventh century. The...
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    Minor, Egypt, and Rome, he accompanied the Byzantine chronicler St. John Moschus, who dedicated to him his celebrated tract on the religious life, Spiritual...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Moschus berezovskii. The dwarf musk deer or Chinese forest musk deer (Moschus berezovskii, Chinese: 林麝; pinyin: Lín...
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    Christian thought in the Church of the East. According to the Damascene monk John Moschus, the city's cathedral had five doors in the 7th century, and the monastic...
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    (c. 525–559) wrote about the desert monasticism of his time, as did John Moschus (c. 550–619). The Judaean Desert has been the site of many archeological...
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    (approximate date) Gaugericus, bishop of Cambrai (approximate date) John Moschus, Byzantine monk (approximate date) Peter III of Callinicum, Syriac Orthodox...
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    Pneumatikos, a hagiographical work by the pre-Islamic Byzantine monk John Moschus, includes the conclusion of a narrative involving an angel and a monk...
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    into Latin a life of John Chrysostom (Venice, 1533); the Spiritual Wisdom of John Moschus; The Ladder of Divine Ascent of John Climacus (Venice, 1531)...
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  • a cousin of Domitian of Melitene. Moschus refers to Athenogenes with the title abba (abbot). According to Moschus, who derived his report from an old...
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    of xyla. In the Life of St. Theodosius the Archimandrite, written by John Moschus during the 610s, one reads of some Eutychian monks of the party of Severus...
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    Erythrum. Daniel took part in the Council of Ephesus in 431. In addition, John Moschus speaks of a bishop Thedodorus of Darnis as having had a vision of Saint...
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    Moschidae (category Taxa named by John Edward Gray)
    deer (Moschus) and its extinct relatives. They are characterized by long 'saber teeth' instead of horns, antlers or ossicones, modest size (Moschus only...
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    Institute–Jerusalem, ARIJ Deir al Qilt aerial photo, ARIJ "Cuziba" stories in John Moschus. "Spiritual Meadow". Translated by Revd. Benedict Baker of Brecon, Wales...
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  • Timothy was a former monk of the Eikoston. In the early 7th century, John Moschus and Sophronius the Sophist visited the laura (community of hermits) of...
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    Heshana Khan, ruler of the Western Turkic Khaganate John Moschus, Byzantine monk and ascetical writer John the Merciful, Patriarch of Alexandria (approximate...
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  • Canada. Wortley, John (1992). John Moschus: The Spiritual Meadow. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications. ISBN 978-0-87907-539-2. Wortley, John (1996). The...
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  • of Laodicea. PG 87a-87b: Procopius of Gaza PG 87c: Procopius of Gaza, John Moschus (Spiritual Meadow), Sophronius, Alexander monk PG 88: Cosmas Indicopleustes...
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  • (approximate date) Gaugericus, bishop of Cambrai (approximate date) John Moschus, Byzantine monk (approximate date) Peter III of Callinicum, Syriac Orthodox...
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  • spirituale, one of several names of one of the earliest hagiological works by John Moschus (c. 550 – 619) Pratum spirituale, c. 1620, a Danish church music composition...
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  • (died 971) John Kyparissiotes John Lazaropoulos John Malalas John Maron John Moschus John Mystacon John Mystikos John of Antioch (chronicler) John of Brienne...
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    The white-bellied musk deer or Himalayan musk deer (Moschus leucogaster) is a musk deer species occurring in the Himalayas of Nepal, Bhutan, India, Pakistan...
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  • the monastery of Peter had been converted from a laura to a coenobium. John Moschus mentions a laura that might be that of Severus in the early seventh century...
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    The Alpine musk deer (Moschus chrysogaster) is a musk deer species native to the eastern Himalayas in Nepal, Bhutan and India to the highlands of Tibet...
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  • The Rule of Saint Augustine Saint Augustine 139 The Spiritual Meadow John Moschus 140 Histories of the Monks of Upper Egypt and the Life of Onnophrius:...
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  • the Ecclesiastical History by Theodoret and the Spiritual Meadow by John Moschus. Here passages from a few 18th- to 20th-century vitae collections, alphabetically...
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