BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF SAINT PARASCHEVA FROM IAŞI
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF SAINT PARASCHEVA FROM IAŞI

Summary/Abstract: The life of Saint Pious Parascheva has been written about repeatedly and in different ways. However, the multitude of contemporary writings have their essence in a few historical sources. The first work concerning the life of St. Parascheva is attributed to the deacon Vasilisc, who wrote the life of the saint at the request of Patriarch Nicholas IV Muzelon, in the middle of the 12th century. Patriarch Teodosie of Bulgaria, Patriarch Eftimie of Târnovo and Moses of Budmil will later be inspired by this work. There is a hypothesis according to which there would have been another writing concerning the life of Saint Parascheva, but which, according to Theodore Balsamon, the patriarch of Antioch, would have been thrown into the fire by the Ecumenical Patriarch, Nicholas IV Muzelon, "since it was written by a peasant, in a simple language that did not correspond to her angelic life".

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