SPEAR Factoids about Repentance

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event: Severus wrote a letter to the monastery of Isaac on the subject of receiving the repentant. See factoid page

event: Severus wrote a letter to Theotecnus on the subject of receiving clergy who repented after holding heretical views. See factoid page

event: Severus wrote a letter to John the scholastic in which he answered questions posed by another. The questions dealt with repentance for refusing to submit to monastic discipline and repentance for self-castration in one's youth. See factoid page

event: Severus wrote a letter to John and John in which he praises the recipients and discusses receiving the repentant into communion, natural disasters, and Nestorians. See factoid page

event: Severus wrote a letter to Nicias on the subject of receiving heretical clergy who have repented and seek communion. See factoid page

event: Severus wrote a letter to Sergius and Marion on the subject of converts form Chalcedonianism doing penance but not being re-baptized or re-anointed and the subject of needing more ordained clergy. See factoid page

event: Severus wrote a letter to Proclus and Eusebuna on the subject of how to readmit the lapsed cleric Cyrus. See factoid page

event: After hearing about the old man's practices, John repented of his sins. See factoid page

event: When Charisius appeared before the Council of Nicaea and repented of his Nestorianism he was admitted to communion based on a signed profession of faith. He was not re-anointed. See factoid page

event: Cosmo,seeing that the woman was beautiful like a pearl, took her away from the governor's men. Weeping, she asked Cosmo to pray for her. See factoid page

event: John followed the man and woman, hoping to find out their identity. When he found them John took an oath to protect the secret of their marriage and holiness. The woman spoke to John about the sin and evil of the world, bringing him to teras and repentance. See factoid page

event: Severus and the bishops of Antioch urged the Apamean bishops to repent of their sin. See factoid page

event: Timothy Aelurus expelled Theodotus from the priesthood for re-anointing repentant heretics. See factoid page

event: John and John wrote a letter to Severus in which they discussed receiving the repentant into communion, natural disasters, and Nestorians. See factoid page

event: John confronted Theodora about the corrupt bishops and the persecution of Christians. Theodora, angry, sought to punish the jealous bishops, but relented after John interceded on their behalf. She commanded John to cease his ordinations, something he was glad to do due to a growing illness. See factoid page

event: Habib was so holy, that many would confess their sins to him without any prompting on his part. Habib performed many miracles and mighty works against his enemies. See factoid page

event: the monk who stole repented, and spent one week in penitence. Other monks in the community rebuked him. See factoid page

event: Severus sent Eusebius and Victor to urge Marinus to repent and abandon his Eutychian views of the incarnation. See factoid page

event: Severus advises Jannia to rule with fear and mercy, bringing forth repentance through ascetic acts of penance, and dismissing women if the community is threatened by their actions. See factoid page

event: James and his fellow monks travel to Marde to receive forgiveness from John of Thella. He instructs them to make penance for three years before they may take communion again. See factoid page

event: Sometime between 519 and 538 Severus of Antioch wrote a letter to Proclus discussing the difficulties of being a bishop with a wife and child. He encouraged Proclus that his situation was not unique and urged him to call his wayward daughter to repentance. See factoid page

event: John the scholastic wrote a letter to Severus in which he sought answers to questions someone else had asked him. The questions dealt with repentance for refusing to submit to monastic discipline and repentance for self-castration in one's youth. See factoid page

event: Nicias wrote a letter to Severus informing him that Gennadius doubted that heretical clergy who have repented could be received. See factoid page

event: Sergius and Marion wrote a letter to Severus on the subject of what rites to perform when receiving converts form Chalcedonianism. See factoid page

event: Proclus and Eusebuna wrote a letter to Severus on the subject of how to readmit the lapsed cleric Cyrus. See factoid page

event: the monk who stole narrated his story, in great sorrow and humility, to John of Ephesus. And John comforted him, and advised the monk to go with him to the blessed man to ask for his repentance. See factoid page

event: Sometime during his episcopacy Severus of Antioch wrote a letter to the clergy of Antaradus regarding a difficult set of circumstance surrounding their efforts to have a bishop ordained for their city and the case of Leontius, a deacon who had been disciplined because of his sin but was unrepentant and indeed sought to become head deacon. See factoid page

event: the monk who stole went up to the the blessed man , and asked for his forgiveness. The old blessed man gave him penance to do and absolved him. The monk brought everything he stole back to the blessed man. See factoid page

event: A widowed artist came to Habib because two of her students had defrauded her. He wrote a letter to the students, who responded rashly incurring the punishment of God. After enduring their punishments, the students repented of their sins. See factoid page

event: For five years the community attracted many into their company, some coming as far as Ingilene. All were impressed by the religious devotion of the community; all who joined them turned from sin, committing their lives to prayer, worship, singing, and monastic devotion. See factoid page

event: Addai exercised his pastoral office by exhorting all to love the poor and repent from sin. See factoid page

event: Severus wrote a letter to archimandrite of the monastery of Bassus about a controversy surrounding a corrupt bishop of Apamea. See factoid page

event: Theotecnus wrote a letter to Severus seeking advice regarding the decision to receive the presbyter Mark after he repented of heresy. See factoid page

event: Anonymous 3762 repented and did penance. See factoid page

event: Cyrus was a lapsed clergyman who sought to be reinstated without signing a written declaration of orthodox faith. See factoid page

event: John describes the lengthy process by which men enter the monastery of Anonymous 3762. After one month of testing they may become penitents, after three months they many be partially tonsured and wear a limited monastic habit. Only after three years they may become monks, fully tonsured and wearing the complete habit. See factoid page

event: After dinner, the man began to weep. During evening worship, he appeared to sleep on his rug, crying throughout the night. See factoid page

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“Keyword Page for Repentance,” in SPEAR: Syriac Persons Events and Relations, general editor Daniel L. Schwartz, $nav-base/aggregate/keyword/repentance.html, 2023-03-23T12:34:37.142-04:00.

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