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essential data about his participation in the cultural and philological life of the monastic peninsula. The commonly accepted opinion on the chronological sequence of the Slavic and Greek variant of his Life has been established only in the last two decades of the twentieth century. P. A. Syrku (1855-1905), the scholar who first discovered and published the Slavic text in 1900, based on a
Serbian manuscript belonging to the
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Mountains in the southeast of the country, which attracted monks from
Bulgaria, Byzantium, and Serbia. Romylos moved to Paroria and became one of Gregory's disciples. There he was one of the most eminent and fervent supporters of the Hesychast theological doctrine, as it was developed in the middle
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He was born in the first quarter of the fourteenth century in the "valiant and glorious city Vidin", northwestern
Bulgaria, and given the Bulgarian name of Rusko or Rayko. He was born in a wealthy family to a Bulgarian mother and Greek father. He studied in a school and made impression with his
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was written before 1391 by one of his disciples from Mount Athos called
Gregory. Both the Greek and the Slavonic version of his Vita refer to the period he spent on Athos interlacing popular hagiographical clichés with patristic sermons on the eternal value of the monastic virtues, yielding no
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on 16 January. His remains are kept in the monastery and are venerated by both
Orthodox and Catholics. His feast day is 16 January according to the Slavonic version of his vita; the Greek version has 1 November.
230:(from Greek "stillness, rest, quiet, silence") – an eremitic tradition of prayer in the Eastern Orthodox Church that flourished in the Balkans during the 14th century and was patronized by the Bulgarian emperor
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St. Romylos was definitely a specific, but neither very popular nor widely venerated saint. According to K. Ivanova, his cult is well attested only on Athos and in the region adjacent to the
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to avoid his parents' plans to marry him. There he became a monk in one of the many monasteries around the capital and took the monastic name
Romanos, later changed to Romylos.
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Romylos was among the many
Bulgarian intellectuals who emigrated to neighbouring Orthodox countries and brought their talents and texts. His tomb is in the church
298:. The monastery was founded as a refuge for Hesychast monks. Romylos remained in Ravanica until his death a few years later, s. 1385. He died at
282:. He could not find peace in Valona because the governors of the region were unjust and the priests were unworthy and eventually moved to the
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of the 14th century. His stay at
Paroria was in difficult times. He had to flee three times to seek safety in the vicinity of Tarnovo near
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collection, was inclined to accept that it was not a translation but an original text composed directly in Slavic.
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Days and deeds of a hesychast saint: A translation of the Greek life of Saint
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talents. When he reached the age of 14-15 he left Vidin and headed for the capital
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A view of Strandzha where Romylos spent much of his youth developing as a Hesychast
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in the early 1350s. On Mount Athos he lived an ascetic life in isolation near the
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Un ermite des Balkans au XIV siècle: La Vie grecque inédite de Saint Romylos
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c. 1385. Romylos was among the brightest followers of the
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Bartusis, M., K. Ben Nasser, and A. Laiou (1982). "
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394:References
351:Saint Sava
255:brigands.
249:Kilifarevo
411:Fine 1987
244:Strandzha
228:Hesychasm
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158:Biography
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