Mitrut Popoiu2009.09.20 [19:37]
@illiana: i have read the paterikon. but there's nothing like that about st. Sisoe. And the story with the skull is a story about Makarios the Great (apophtegmata patrum, makarios 38)
iliana2009.09.20 [18:53]
@ rosmarinus: please do not believe the "history" we "learn" from Holywood movies...
@ Mitrut Popoiu: I do not have available right now the "Paterikon", so I do not know what exactly is written for St. Sisoe. I don't remember seing any other icon of St. Sisoe apart from that in front of the bones of Alexander the Great. Sometimes strong traditions come from reality (not that the skull spoke, but that St. Sisoe found the grave). And I also heard archaeologists saying that they used the life of St. Sisoe and the places where he lived or passed to locate the grave of King Alexander.
Mitrut Popoiu2009.09.20 [17:16]
anyway, in Paterikon (apophtegmata Patrum) there's nothing mentioned about. I have "heard" also about that. So, I think that's a kind of tradition. But anyway in many frescoes in Romania I have seen the same image: Sisoe and the bones of Alexander the Great
rosmarinus2009.09.20 [13:32]
Nice!!! I did not watch movie about Alexander Great, but it was not sure showed about this happening...
Is this happening wroten in story about life St.Sisoje?
iliana2009.09.19 [15:51]
There is a tradition saying that St. Sisoe's asked bones, to tell him to which they belong to! And the skull replied that the bones belong to king Alexander. Based on the life of St. Sisoe, many archealogists tried to find the grave of King Alexander the Great!
iliana2009.09.19 [15:49]
"When you saw the bones of King Alexander, denuded, without glory and shape, Sisoe you cried out: where is silver, gold, decency? Death is touching them. Radiance, lightning and dream, tick away like shadow". From St. Sisoe's Service!
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