ON ST. PAUL THE YOUNGER,
ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE.
In the year 784.
CommentaryPaul the Younger, archbishop of Constantinople (St.)
J. P.
In the Chronological History of the Patriarchs of Constantinople, prefixed to the first volume of this month, A synopsis concerning this Saint drawn from elsewhere. this holy Paul, fourth of this name, but fifty-second in order among those prelates, is exhibited at page [] 101 and following. He was by nation a Cypriot, by office a lector. He presided over the see of Constantinople from the year 780 until 784; not daring indeed openly to condemn the heresy of the Iconoclasts, but falling into sickness he sent word of resignation to the throne of Constantinople, and, taking the monastic habit in the monastery of Florus, publicly and not without tears confessed his cowardice, and profitably professed the orthodox faith: so that dying and already dead he profited his church more than living. Concerning the day of his death, his memory in the Greek Calendars, the place of his public veneration, the epithet of the Younger*, and his name inscribed in the sacred tables, the cited History may be consulted, where also the other things may be seen which a little before we drew from the same. But we give him on this day, on which he is noted in the great printed Menaea, in the Menology of Sirleto, in the Menaeum of Chifflet, and in another of our Greek transcripts; although in the cited great Menaea and elsewhere he is announced also on other days. See the same History. Take these few things concerning this holy Patriarch in good part, reader.