Saint
Eulogius of Alexandria, Miniature from the Menologion of Basil II
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Saint Euloge d'Alexandrie
Patriarche
d'Alexandrie (+ 607)
Patriarche d'Alexandrie,
il était syrien de naissance. Ses connaissances théologiques et philosophiques
étaient fort grandes, ce pourquoi il fut choisi comme patriarche. Il se lia
d'amitié avec le pape saint
Grégoire le Grand et lutta avec vigueur contre la propagation des
doctrines monophysites.
À Alexandrie, vers 607,
saint Euloge, évêque, illustre par sa science, au temps de saint Grégoire le
Grand qui lui envoya plusieurs lettres et écrivit de lui: ”Il n’est pas loin de
moi, car il ne fait qu’un avec moi”.
Martyrologe romain
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Euloge d’Alexandrine
Patriarche, Saint
† 608
Saint Euloge était
Syrien de naissance. Etant encore jeune, il embrassa la vie monastique dans sa
pairie. Les eutychiens, comme il arrive toujours à ceux qui ont abandonné le
centre de l'union, se trouvaient alors divisés en plusieurs sectes. La fureur
et l'animosité de leurs contestations avaient jeté les églises de Syrie et d'Egypte
dans la plus grande confusion, et la plupart des moines syriens étaient devenus
fameux par la corruption de leurs mœurs et par leur attachement à l'hérésie.
Euloge apprit de leur chute à veiller sur lui-même, et il ne se distingua pas
moins par l'innocence de sa vie, que par la pureté de sa doctrine.
Après avoir acquis une
grande connaissance des belles-lettres, il se mit à étudier la théologie dans
les vraies sources de cette science, dans l'Ecriture, dans les conciles et dans
les ouvrages des Pères. Comme il joignait à une application infatigable, un
esprit pénétrant, une conception vive et un jugement solide, ses progrès furent
très-rapides. Il fut bientôt en état de combattre pour la vérité ; il mérita
d'être compté parmi les Grégoire-le-Grand et les Eutychius. 11 devint en un mot
une des plus brillantes lumières de l'Eglise dans le siècle où il vécut. Sa
science reçut un nouvel éclat de son humilité, ainsi que de son amour pour la
pénitence et pour la prière.
Les besoins de l'Eglise
le firent tirer de sa solitude, et il fut fait prêtre par saint Anastase,
patriarche d’Antioche, qui mourut en 598, et qui fut remplacé par
Anastase-le-Jeune. Tant qu'Euloge demeura dans cette ville, il fut toujours
étroitement lié avec saint Eutychius, patriarche de Constantinople, et il se
réunit avec lui contre les ennemis de la vérité.
Tibère-Constantin, prince
vertueux, n'eut pas plus tôt été élevé à l'empire, qu'il s'occupa des moyens de
réparer les maux que Justinien et Justin-le-Jeune, ses prédécesseurs, avaient
faits à l'Eglise et à l'Etat. Il ouvrit ses trésors pour assister tous ceux de
ses sujets qui étaient dans le besoin. Son zèle pour l'orthodoxie lui faisait
chercher de bons pasteurs pour les églises particulières qui avaient le plus
souffert des ravages de l'eutychianisme. Ce fut ce qui le détermina à demander
que l'on donnât saint Euloge pour successeur à Jean, patriarche d'Alexandrie.
On le sacra sur la fin de l'année 583.
Ayant été obligé de faire
un voyage à Constantinople, environ deux ans après son installation, il y
trouva saint Grégoire-le-Grand, et se lia avec lui d'une amitié fort étroite.
Ils n'eurent plus tous deux dans la suite qu'un cœur et qu'une âme. Parmi les
lettres de saint Grégoire, il y en a plusieurs qui sont adressées au saint
patriarche. Celui-ci composa d'excellents ouvrages contre les acéphales et les
autres sectes des eutychiens. On connaît aussi de lui onze discours, dont le
neuvième est un éloge de la vie monastique, et six livres contre les novatiens
d'Alexandrie, dans le premier desquels il est prouvé qu'on doit honorer les martyrs.
Il ne nous reste plus de ces ouvrages, que des fragments qui nous ont été
conservés par Photius. Saint Euloge composa encore un autre traité, dont
Photius ne parle point. Il s'y proposait de réfuter les agnoëtes, secte
d’eutychiens, qui soutenaient que Jésus-Christ, comme homme, ignorait plusieurs
choses, et notamment le jour du jugement. Saint Grégoire-le-Grand, que l'auteur
avait prié d'examiner cet ouvrage, le lui renvoya, en lui marquant qu'il n'y
avait rien trouvé que d'admirable. Le saint patriarche d'Alexandrie mourut en
606 ou en 608. Nous admirons les actions d'éclat qui brillèrent dans les Saints
; ce n'est pourtant point dans ces sortes d'actions que consistait leur
sainteté, mais dans la disposition habituelle de vertu où était leur âme. De bonnes
actions, faites de temps à autre, ne font point l'homme vertueux ; ce titre
n'appartient qu'à celui qui s'est fait une heureuse habitude de la pratique des
divins commandements. Ce n'est point assez d'avoir reçu dans son cœur la
semence des vertus, il fa ut l'y nourrir, la développer, et l'unir tellement à
la substance de son âme, qu'elle devienne le principe de toutes nos actions et
de toutes nos affections. Par-là tout l'ensemble de conduite, tant publique que
particulière, formera une suite non interrompue d'œuvres méritoires ; et ces
œuvres tireront leur perfection de la ferveur qui les produira. Cette ferveur,
par un caractère essentiel à la vertu, est toujours susceptible
d'accroissement, et elle doit toujours croître dans une âme véritablement pénétrée
de la divinité de notre sainte Religion.
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Euloge, patriarche
d'Alexandrie
Le Martyrologe romain
vénère Euloge le 13 septembre. Il fut l'un des champion de l'orthodoxie et de
l'unité de l'Eglise. Moine et prêtre d'Antioche, où il fut responsable de
l'église de la Vierge, dite Justinienne, Euloge composa des eouvres insignes.
Entre 578 et 580 il fut élu patriarche d'Alexandrie. Il était le 46e évêque à
occuper le siège de Saint Marc. Pendant les 27 ans de son épiscopat, il lutta
contre les hérésies de son temps et écrivit plusieurs livres, surtout contre
les monophysites et les novatiens. Doué d'un tempérament modéré, il combattit
l'hérésie par la force de la parole et par ses écrits. Il obtint la conversion
de quelques hérétiques. A Alexandrie il bâtit une basilique en honneur de S.
Julien d'Antinoé, martyrisé pendant la persécution de Dioclétien.
Euloge manifesta toujours
une grande dévotion au Pape saint Leon le Grand et il écrivit des oeuvres pour
sa défense. Il jouit de l'amitié du pape Grégoire le Grand (590-604), qu'il
avait rencontré à Constantinople lorsqu'il était ambassadeur du Saint Siège.
Euloge maintint avec lui une intense corresponsance. Dans l'Epistolaire de
Grégoire il y a treize lettres adressées au patriarche alexandrin. Dans ces
lettres, le pape expose ses principes doctrinaux et pastoraux et confie à
Euloge ses soucis et partage avec lui ses joies. Des oeuvres d'Euloge on a
conservé seulement quelques fragments. Il es mort en 607.
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known as
Eulogio
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Monk as
a young man. Well educated in
the literature and science of his day, was a Biblical scholar, and studied the
writings of the great pastors. Opposed the Eutychian and Monophysite heresies.
Patriarch of Alexandria, Egypt in 579,
serving for 28 years. His correspondence with Saint Gregory
the Great has survived.
Born
c.607 of
natural causes
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(Saint) Bishop (September
13) (7th
century) A Syrian by birth and a monk from early youth, who laboured with
great fruit for the reform of morals and the strengthening of orthodox belief
among his compatriots, many of whom had been seduced by the Eutychians or
Monophysites. Eulogius was Patriarch of Alexandria from A.D. 579 to A.D. 607. Photius
gives an account of his writings in terms of high praise. His correspondence
with his friend Saint Gregory the Great (whose letters to him are extant) is
interesting. One of the Epistles contains Saint Gregory’s account of his having
sent Saint Augustine to England.
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St. Eulogius of
Alexandria
Feastday: September 13
Death: 608
Patriarch of Alexandria,
Egypt, and a friend of Pope St. Gregory I the Great. Eulogius was a
Syrian monk at Antioch named
as abbot of
Mother of God Monastery.
In 579 , he became patriarch of Alexandria and
met the future pontiff Gregory the Great. He wrote many treatises against the
heresies of his era.
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St. Eulogius, Patriarch
of Alexandria, Confessor
From Nicephorus’s
Chronicle, the Paschal Chronicle, Photius, Bibl. Cod. 181, 208, 226, 230,
&c.
A.D. 608.
ST. EULOGIUS was a Syrian
by birth, and embraced young the monastic state in that country. The Eutychian
heresy was then split into various sects, as it usually happens among such as
have left the centre of union. These, by their tyranny and the fury of their
contests, had thrown the churches of Syria and Egypt into much confusion, and a
great part of the monks of Syria were at that time become remarkable for their
loose morals and errors against faith. Eulogius learned from the fall of others
to stand more watchfully and firmly upon his guard, and was not less
distinguished by the innocence and sanctity of his manners than by the purity
of his doctrine. Having, by an enlarged pursuit of learning, attained to a
great variety of useful knowledge in the different branches of literature, he
set himself to the study of divinity in the sacred sources of that science,
which are the holy scriptures, and the tradition of the church explained in its
councils, and the approved writings of its eminent pastors. From the study of
his retreat he made this his chief study, to which he directed every thing
else; and, as his industry was indefatigable, his parts quick, his
apprehensions lively, and his judgment solid, his progress was such as to
qualify him to be an illustrious champion for the truth, worthy to be ranked
with St. Gregory the Great and St. Eutychius as one of the greatest lights of
the church in the age wherein he lived. His character received still a brighter
lustre from his sincere humility and spirit of holy compunction and prayer. In
the great dangers and necessities of the church he was drawn out of his
solitude, and made priest of Antioch by the patriarch St. Anastasius, who was
promoted to that dignity in 561, and, dying in 598, was succeeded by Anastasius
the Younger. St. Eulogius, whilst he lived at Antioch, entered into the
strictest connexions with St. Eutychius, patriarch of Constantinople, and
joined his forces with that holy prelate against the enemies of the truth.
The Emperor Justinian and
his nephew and successor, Justin the Younger, had been the plunderers of their
empire, and the grievous oppressors of their subjects; the former to support
his extravagance and vanity, the latter to gratify his insatiable avarice and
scandalous lusts. Justin II., dying in 576, after a reign of ten years and ten
months, Tiberius Constantine, a Thracian, and a virtuous prince, was raised to
the throne. He applied himself to heal the wounds caused during the former
reigns, both in the church and state. His charities in all parts of the empire
were boundless, and all his treasuries were open to the poor. Amongst the evils
with which the church was then afflicted, the disorders and confusion into
which the tyranny of the Eutychians had thrown the church of Alexandria, called
aloud for a powerful remedy, and an able and zealous pastor, endued with
prudence and vigour to apply them. Upon the death of the patriarch John, St.
Eulogius was raised to that patriarchal dignity towards the close of the year
583, at the earnest desire of the emperor, who, having reigned only six years
and ten months, died the same year, leaving his son-in-law, Mauritius, his
successor in the imperial throne. Our saint was obliged to make a journey to
Constantinople about two years after his promotion, in order to concert
measures concerning certain affairs of his church. He met at court Saint
Gregory the Great, and contracted with him a holy friendship, so that, from
that time, they seemed to be one heart and one soul. Among the letters of St.
Gregory, we have several extant which he wrote to our saint. St. Eulogius
composed many excellent works against the Acephali, and other sects of Eutychians.
Photius has preserved us valuable fragments of some of these treatises; also of
eleven discourses of our saint, the ninth of which is a commendation of a
monastic life; likewise of his six books against the Novations of Alexandria,
in the fifth of which he expressly sets himself to prove that the martyrs are
to be honoured. 1 Photius
makes no mention of the treatise of St. Eulogius against the Agnoëtæ, a sect of
Eutychians, who ascribed to Christ, as man, ignorance of the day of judgment,
and of many other things. St. Gregory the Great, to whose censure the author submitted
it, sent him his approbation, with high commendations, saying: “I have not
found any thing but what is admirable in your writings,” &c. 2 Saint
Eulogius did not long survive Saint Gregory, for he died in the year 606, or,
according to others, in 608.
We admire the great
actions and the glorious triumphs of the saints; yet it is not so much in these
that their sanctity consisted, as in the constant habitual heroic disposition
of their souls. There is no one who does not sometimes do good actions; but he
can never be called virtuous who does well only by humour, or by fits and
starts, not by steady habits. It is an habitual poverty of spirit, humility,
meekness, patience, purity, piety, and charity, which our Divine Master
recommends to us. We must take due pains to plant the seeds of virtues in our
souls, must watch and labour continually to improve and strengthen them, that
they may be converted into nature, and be the principle by which all the
affections of our souls, and all the actions of our lives are governed. If
these pure heroic sentiments perfectly possess and fill our hearts, the whole
tenour of our conduct, whether in private or in public life, will be an uniform
train of virtuous actions, which will derive their perfection from the degree
of fervour and purity from which they spring, and which, according to the
essential property of virtue, is always improving, and always improvable.
Note 1. Phot. Cod.
182, p. 411. [back]
Note 2. St. Greg. l.
8, ep. 42. [back]
Rev. Alban
Butler (1711–73). Volume IX: September. The Lives of the
Saints. 1866.
SOURCE : http://www.bartleby.com/210/9/131.html
St. Eulogius of Alexandria
Patriarch of
that see from 580 to 607. He was a successful combatant of the heretical errors then
current in Egypt,
notably the various phases of Monophysitism.
He was a warm friend of St.
Gregory the Great, corresponded with him, and received from that pope many
flattering expressions of esteem and admiration. Among other merits the pope makes
special mention of his defence of the primacy of
the Roman
See (Baronius,
Ann. Eccl., ad an. 597, no. 9). Eulogius refuted the Novatians,
some communities of which ancient sect still existed in
his diocese,
and vindicated the hypostatic
union of the two natures in Christ, against both Nestorius and Eutyches. Baronius (ad
ann. 600, no. 5) says that Gregory wished Eulogius to
survive him, recognizing in him the voice of truth.
It has been rightly said that he restored for a brief period to
the church of Alexandria that life and youthful
vigour characteristic of those churches only which remain closely
united to Rome.
Besides the above works and a commentary against the various sects of
the Monophysites (Severians,
Theodosians, Cainites, Acephali)
he left eleven discourses in defence of Leo
I and the council of Chalcedon, also a work against the Agnoetae,
submitted by him before publication to Gregory
I, who after some observations authorized it unchanged. With exception of
one sermon and
a few fragments all the writings of Eulogius have perished.
McNeal, Mark. "St. Eulogius of Alexandria." The Catholic
Encyclopedia. Vol. 5. New York: Robert Appleton
Company, 1909. 13 Sept.
2015 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05603c.htm>.
Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Gerald M.
Knight.
Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. May 1, 1909. Remy Lafort, Censor. Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.
Copyright © 2026 by New Advent LLC.
Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
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Saint
Eulogius, Patriarch of Alexandria
Saint Eulogius was a
Syrian by birth, and while young embraced the monastic state in that country.
The Eutychian heresy had thrown the Churches of Syria and Egypt into much
confusion, and a great part of the monks of Syria were at that time become
remarkable for their loose morals and errors against faith. Eulogius learned
from the fall of others to stand more watchfully and firmly upon his guard, and
was not less distinguished by the innocence and sanctity of his manners than by
the purity of his doctrine. Having, by an enlarged pursuit of learning,
attained to a great variety of useful knowledge in the different branches of literature,
he set himself to the study of divinity in the sacred sources of that science,
which are the Holy Scriptures, the tradition of the Church as explained in its
councils, and the approved writings of its eminent pastors. In the great
dangers and necessities of the Church he was drawn out of his solitude, and
made priest of Antioch by the patriarch Saint Anastasius. Upon the death of
John, the Patriarch of Alexandria, Saint Eulogius was raised to that
patriarchal dignity toward the close of the year 583. About two years after his
promotion, our Saint was obliged to make a journey to Constantinople, in order
to concert measures concerning certain affairs of his Church. He met at court
Saint Gregory the Great, and contracted with him a holy friendship, so that,
from that time, they seemed to be one heart and one soul. Among the letters of
Saint Gregory, we have several extant which he wrote to our Saint St. Eulogius
composed many excellent works against different heresies, and died in the year
606.
Reflection – We admire
the great actions and the glorious triumph of the Saints; yet it is not so much
in these that their sanctity consisted, as in the constant habitual heroic
disposition of their souls. There is no one who does not sometimes do good
actions ; but he can never be called virtuous who does well only by humor, or
by fits and starts, not by steady habits.
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Saint Eulogius
Saint Eulogius, Patriarch
of Alexandria, was one of the enlightened hierarchs of the sixth century. At
first he was igumen of the monastery of the Mother of God in Antioch, and then
in 579 he was chosen as Patriarch of Alexandria, where he served for
twenty-seven years. Throughout his life, the saint struggled vigorously against
heresies. He was also a friend of St Gregory Dialogus (March 12), and some of
their correspondence has been preserved.
St Eulogius died in 607 or 608. St Photius quotes from his writings, which
reveal an Orthodox theology of the two natures of our Lord Jesus Christ. Only
one of his sermons, for Palm Sunday, has survived in complete form.
SOURCE : https://oca.org/saints/lives/2007/02/13/100517-st-eulogius-the-archbishop-of-alexandria
Sant' Eulogio Patriarca
di Alessandria
Festa: 13 giugno
† 607 circa
Fu un importante
religioso del VI secolo che lottò con forza per difendere la vera fede
cristiana (ortodossia) da idee sbagliate (eresie) come quella dei monofisiti.
Le sue opere, anche se incomplete, ci permettono di capire che era un teologo
molto preparato e un instancabile difensore della fede giusta. Era anche un
amico intimo di Papa Gregorio Magno, con cui si scambiava lettere piene di
riflessioni religiose e notizie importanti. Dopo la sua morte (607), Eulogio fu
subito venerato come santo.
Martirologio
Romano: Ad Alessandria d’Egitto, sant’Eulogio, vescovo, insigne per la sua
dottrina, al quale il papa san Gregorio Magno inviò molte lettere, scrivendo di
lui: 'Non è lontano da me, chi con me è una cosa sola'.
Fu uno dei massimi campioni dell’ortodossia intorno al 600. Siamo particolarmente informati su di lui, oltre che da quanto ci è rimasto delle sue opere, da numerose lettere che gli indirizzò san Gregorio Magno, da alcune notizie riferiteci dal contemporaneo Giovanni Mosco (morto nel 619) e soprattutto da Fozio, il quale, nella sua Bibliotheca, sunteggia e commenta gli scritti principali del santo.
Eulogio fu monaco e sacerdote di Antiochia, dove resse per qualche tempo la chiesa della Santissima Vergine detta Giustiniana. Compose in quel periodo «opere insigni», tra cui dovremo collocare la lettera contro gli eretici teodosiani e camiti, indirizzata a Eutichio di Costantinopoli e di cui ci riferisce lo stesso Fozio. Fu eletto patriarca di Alessandria (il quarantaseiesimo della serie, secondo la lista della Chronographia di Niceforo) tra il 578 ed il 580, e resse quella famosissima Chiesa, secondo la medesima Chronographia, per diciassette anni; ma gli Acta Sanctorum correggono tale cifra in ventisette, utilizzando le notizie certe riguardanti antecessori e successori di Eulogio sulla cattedra di san Marco; gli studiosi moderni hanno accolto favorevolmente tale correzione, basandosi anche sul fatto che delle lettere di san Gregorio ad Eulogio ben dodici sono datate tra il 595 ed il 603, e fissano la data della morte di Eulogio al 607.
Durante tutto il suo pontificato, Eulogio svolse un’intensa attività contro le sette ereticali del tempo, e soprattutto contro i monofisiti. Nel 589, in un concilio che tenne ad Alessandria, condannò due fazioni di Samaritani; scrisse poi cinque libri contro i Novaziani, undici orazioni teologiche contro varie eresie, un’opera di due libri contro Severo e Timoteo, in difesa dell’Epistola ad Flavianum di san Leone Magno, un altro libro contro lo stesso Severo e contro Teodosio, pure in difesa di san Leone, un’Oratio invectiva contro teodosiani e camiti e combatté particolarmente Terrore degli agnoiti, secondo i quali Gesù avrebbe ignorato molte cose, come ad esempio il momento del giudizio universale e della fine del mondo. Giovanni Mosco poi, nel suo Pratum spirituale, racconta che Eulogio costruì in Alessandria una grande basilica in onore del celebre martire della persecuzione dioclezianea, san Giuliano di Antinoe, sul luogo di una chiesa anteriore ormai labente, e che a ciò fu indotto da un’apparizione che ebbe del medesimo santo sotto le sembianze dell’arcidiacono alessandrino Giuliano: come fonte di tale informazione, il Mosco adduce la testimonianza di un Mena, cenobiarca di Tugara, a poche miglia dalla città. A proposito del culto e della venerazione che Eulogio ebbe per san Leone Magno, il medesimo Mosco ci offre due particolari: nel capitolo 147 descrive la commozione che il patriarca provò quando il suo cubiculario gli venne a riferire d’aver sognato per ben tre volte che papa Leone faceva visita ad Eulogio per ringraziarlo, a nome dell’apostolo Pietro e proprio, della tenace difesa della sua Epistola ad Flavianum. Abbiamo riferito questo episodio, pressocché insignificante, perché esso è poi venuto ad ingrandirsi non solo nelle leggende medievali (il Sinassario Costantino polita, no, fondendo insieme gli elementi dell’apparizione di s. Giuliano con quelli del sogno del cubiculario racconta che, a nome di san Leone, gli apparve realmente un angelo, sotto le apparenze dell’arcidiacono Leone!), ma anche nel racconto di studiosi moderni. La ragione poi di questo intervento dell’apostolo Pietro a proposito dell'Epistola ad Flavianum, ci è data da un altro particolare di Mosco, secondo cui lo stesso Eulogio amava raccontare che quando si era recato a Costantinopoli si era trovato a coabitare con l’allora apocrisario della Chiesa Romana san Gregorio, e che questi gli aveva riferito la tradizione romana sul modo straordinario con cui san Pietro aveva personalmente contribuito al perfezionamento della medesima epistola. Da quest’ultimo particolare siamo informati anche che l’amicizia tra Eulogio e Gregorio nacque dal periodo in cui il diacono Gregorio si trovava apocrisario a Costantinopoli, e cioè tra il 579 ed il 585. Nell’epistolario del grande papa troviamo ben tredici lettere indirizzate ad Eulogio. In queste lettere ad Eulogio, san Gregorio espone al confratello di Alessandria i propri principi dottrinali e pastorali; gli confida le sue preoccupazioni per le pretese del patriarca di Costantinopoli, per le guerre longobardiche che stavano devastando l'Italia, e anche per i suoi malanni personali; gli partecipa le sue gioie per la conversione degli anglosassoni (di cui dice meritevoli le preghiere dello stesso Eulogio) e per l’opera intensa che Eulogio, da Gregorio chiamato Organum Dei, svolge ad Alessandria a favore dell’ortodossia e dell’unità della Chiesa, «contra haereticorum latratus»; domanda o fornisce notizie su punti particolari (tra l’altro importantissima la descrizione che fa in Epistola VIII, 29 del Martirologio Geronimiano, in risposta ad una richiesta di Eulogio sopra un libro sui martiri, che il vescovo alessandrino riteneva essere stato scritto da Eusebio); scambia regali con Eulogio e in particolare gli fornisce lunghe travi per costruzioni, lamentando che le navi, inviate da Alessandria per prelevarle, siano troppo piccole per comprenderle. La notizia interessa anche per il fatto che tali travature dovevano certamente servire per le capriate delle basiliche, data la lunghezza richiesta, ed offre un’indiretta testimonianza di costruzioni sacre operate da Eulogio. Interessante anche la nota su cui torna spesso Gregorio, che cioè le tre sedi di Roma, Antiochia ed Alessandria formano per così dire una sola cattedra, la Cattedra di san Pietro.
Delle opere di Eulogio di Alessandria ci rimangono poveri frammenti: un sermone sopra la Domenica delle Palme, sette Capitula sulle due nature di Cristo, ed una dozzina di brani di varia lunghezza. Per un culto tributato alla sua memoria già dagli anni immediatamente posteriori alla sua morte (607) ci è testimone lo stesso Mosco, che usa nei suoi riguardi spesso l’espressione «il papa Eulogio, quello che è ora tra i santi». Anche i Miracula dei santi Ciro e Giovanni dicono di Eulogio che «amministrò ottimamente questa Chiesa [di Alessandria]». I sinassari lo celebrano al 13 febbraio e al 13 giugno, mentre il Martirologio Romano (ma non gli altri martirologi occidentali) lo venera al 13 settembre.
Autore: Giovanni Lucchesi
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