Driven by curiosity, he entered the cave and discovered an open space, under the sky, well shadowed, due to an old palm tree. 5.1), where he found some rocky heights with a cave, closed by a huge stone. That moment Paulus decided to hide, seeking refuge in the mountains (P.
When Decius’ persecution began, his brother-in-law succumbed to the “accursed hunger for gold” (vide Vergilius, Aeneis, 3.57: auri sacra fames) and planned to handover the young man he was supposed to hide. 4.1), born around 228, lost both his parents while still an adolescent and, together with his sister (recently married), inherited a fine wealth by the age of sixteen, he was already acquainted with Greek and Egyptian learning, was gentle and loved God dearly. for Vita Beati Pauli, monachi Thebaei, M. ∗ Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest, This paper is the written version of the presentation that I gave at the Annual Conference of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest, 5-6 November 2010. The components belong to biographic elements, details of the life in desert, including the creatures of the desert, trials, visions, miracles1. The pieces of this triptych are well individualised, though preserving a common tone, beyond the story of each protagonist: they are in perfect harmony, both with each other and with their author. This triple work set the fundaments of Latin hagiographic literature, designing the paths for the future authors: the eulogy of virginity and the commendation to embrace it (laudatio, exhortatio), models and examples (exempla), advices (praecepta, disciplina). Some years later, he accomplished, with Vita Hilarionis, what was to be a well articulated trilogy, with perfect tension. During the exile years, beginning with 385, he settled in Bethlehem, being followed by Paula, one of the aristocratic women that represented the Aventine Circle in Bethlehem, he wrote Vita Malchi, in 388, mirror of the life inside the community. In his biography, these opusculae equal stages of his inside becoming, succeeding in an explicit order: dwelling in the desert, in 376, he wrote Vita Pauli, basis of monachal life. The ascetic ideal of Hieronymus is pictured in three opusculae: Vita Beati Pauli, monachi Thebaei De monacho captiuo Vita Hilarionis.
Keywords: Hieronymus, hermits, ascetic life, desert, solitude, trials. His moral annotations are remarkably discreet. Hieronymus himself is part of the three stories, either as narrative link (he once heard a story, while being a young man, and tells it now, by the end of his life), or as an explicit comment regarding his present work and the way his previous work was read. The three “Vitae” are distinct, though in perfect harmony. Ībstract Hieronymus’ opusculae “Vita Beati Pauli, monachi Thebaei”, “ De monacho captiuo” and “Vita Hilarionis” are parts of a triptych meant to explain his ascetic ideal its defining traits are chastity, temperance, generosity, acceptance of models and advices that are of true Christian spirit. DELIA GRIGORE, School Education and Rroma Ethnic Self-Esteem. LAURA SITARU, On Cultural and Political Constants in the Context of Contemporary Developments in the Arab World. Ģ MIHAI IACOB, La Indistinción ontológica del discurso erótico: Coños de Juan Manuel de Prada. HANIBAL STĂNCIULESCU, Strategie de riscrittura nella narrativa italiana postmoderna. IRINA-ANA DROBOT, Modernist and Postmodernist Representations of the World in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and in Graham Swift’s The Light of Day. ANCA-LUISA VIUSENCO, Sylvia Plath and Zelda Fitzgerald or Madness and Creativity Intertwined.
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