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'''Meletios the Younger''' (c. 1035 – c. 1105), also called '''Meletios of Myoupolis''', was a [[Byzantine Greeks|Byzantine Greek]] monk, pilgrim and priest. He is venerated as a [[List of Eastern Orthodox saints|saint in Eastern Orthodoxy]] and his [[Feast day|feast]] is celebrated on 1 September.<ref name=ODB></ref>
Meletios was born in the [[Cappadocia]]n village of [[Moutalaske]]. At fifteen years of age, he moved to [[Constantinople]], the capital of [[Byzantine Empire]]. There he became a monk before joining the ''[[eukterion]]'' of Saint George near [[Thebes, Greece|Thebes]]. He left Saint George for a lengthy pilgrimage that brought him to the [[Holy Land]], [[Rome]] and possibly [[Santiago de Compostela]]. Upon his return to Greece, he settled on [[Mount Myoupolis]] and Patriarch [[Nicholas III of Constantinople]] consecrated him a priest. By around 1081 he had acquired the nearby monastery of the Symboulon, which came to be known as [[Hosios Meletios]] after him. In his later years, he received an annual donation of 422 ''[[hyperpyra]]'' from the Emperor [[Alexios I Komnenos]]. He died in his monastery around 1105.<ref name=ODB/>
Two [[Hagiography|biographies]] of Meletios were written after 1141 by [[Nicholas of Methone]] and [[Theodore Prodromos]].<ref name=DEA>Dorothy E. Abrahamse (1986), "Byzantine Views of the West in the Early Crusade Period: The Evidence of Hagiography", in Vladimir Peter Goss (ed.), ''The Meeting of Two Worlds: Cultural Exchange Between East and West During the Period of the Crusades'' (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications), pp. 189–200.</ref> They are valuable historical sources because of their emphasis on Meletios' interactions with the Byzantine elite. They occasionally contradict each other. Of the two, Theodore's is the more worldly and entertaining. He gives more space to Meletios' pilgrimages and includes the story of a Theban lady attempting to seduce the saint.<ref name=ODB/> He is the only one to mention a pilgrimage to Compostela in Spain.<ref name=DEA/> Nicholas focuses more attention on Meletios' care for his monastic community, whom he protects from fire and whose gardens he defends from rabbits.<ref name=ODB/>
==Biographies==
*[[Nicholas of Methone]], "Vita sancti Meletii iunioris" [= [[Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca|BHG]] 1247], ed. W. Wassilievskij, ''Pravoslavnyi Palestinskii Sbornik'' VI (Saint Petersburg, 1866), pp. 1–39.
*[[Theodore Prodromos]], "Vita sancti Meletii iunioris" [= BHG 1248], ed. W. Wassilievskij, ''Pravoslavnyi Palestinskii Sbornik'' VI (Saint Petersburg, 1866), pp. 40–69.
==References==
[[Category:1030s births]]
[[Category:1100s deaths]]
[[Category:11th-century Byzantine monks]]
[[Category:Pilgrimage accounts]]
[[Category:Byzantine saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church]]
Meletios was born in the [[Cappadocia]]n village of [[Moutalaske]]. At fifteen years of age, he moved to [[Constantinople]], the capital of [[Byzantine Empire]]. There he became a monk before joining the ''[[eukterion]]'' of Saint George near [[Thebes, Greece|Thebes]]. He left Saint George for a lengthy pilgrimage that brought him to the [[Holy Land]], [[Rome]] and possibly [[Santiago de Compostela]]. Upon his return to Greece, he settled on [[Mount Myoupolis]] and Patriarch [[Nicholas III of Constantinople]] consecrated him a priest. By around 1081 he had acquired the nearby monastery of the Symboulon, which came to be known as [[Hosios Meletios]] after him. In his later years, he received an annual donation of 422 ''[[hyperpyra]]'' from the Emperor [[Alexios I Komnenos]]. He died in his monastery around 1105.<ref name=ODB/>
Two [[Hagiography|biographies]] of Meletios were written after 1141 by [[Nicholas of Methone]] and [[Theodore Prodromos]].<ref name=DEA>Dorothy E. Abrahamse (1986), "Byzantine Views of the West in the Early Crusade Period: The Evidence of Hagiography", in Vladimir Peter Goss (ed.), ''The Meeting of Two Worlds: Cultural Exchange Between East and West During the Period of the Crusades'' (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications), pp. 189–200.</ref> They are valuable historical sources because of their emphasis on Meletios' interactions with the Byzantine elite. They occasionally contradict each other. Of the two, Theodore's is the more worldly and entertaining. He gives more space to Meletios' pilgrimages and includes the story of a Theban lady attempting to seduce the saint.<ref name=ODB/> He is the only one to mention a pilgrimage to Compostela in Spain.<ref name=DEA/> Nicholas focuses more attention on Meletios' care for his monastic community, whom he protects from fire and whose gardens he defends from rabbits.<ref name=ODB/>
==Biographies==
*[[Nicholas of Methone]], "Vita sancti Meletii iunioris" [= [[Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca|BHG]] 1247], ed. W. Wassilievskij, ''Pravoslavnyi Palestinskii Sbornik'' VI (Saint Petersburg, 1866), pp. 1–39.
*[[Theodore Prodromos]], "Vita sancti Meletii iunioris" [= BHG 1248], ed. W. Wassilievskij, ''Pravoslavnyi Palestinskii Sbornik'' VI (Saint Petersburg, 1866), pp. 40–69.
==References==
[[Category:1030s births]]
[[Category:1100s deaths]]
[[Category:11th-century Byzantine monks]]
[[Category:Pilgrimage accounts]]
[[Category:Byzantine saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church]]
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