CLEMENT, Saint. - Byzantine hymnographer, who lived in the 9th century. It seems certain that he was a monk of Stoudion and not at Grottaferrata, as G. Sciommari believed (Vita s. Bartholomaei, Rome 1728, p. 120).

He composed several canons, that is, rhythmic hymns of a type inaugurated a century earlier by St. Andrew of Crete. Nine of them have been published. Ten other similar compositions are also attributed to him, preserved unpublished in the abbey library of Grottaferrata. It is probable that the study of the innumerable liturgical manuscripts, buried in libraries, will considerably lengthen the list of C.'s canons. He died in exile for having defended orthodoxy in the iconoclastic struggles. He is currently celebrated by the Greek Church on April 30.

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BIBL.: S. Petrides, Office inédite de s. C. hymnographe, in Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 12 (1903), pp. 571-81; C. Emmereau, Echos d'Orient, 22 (1923), p. 17 ff.; S. Salaville, s. v. in DACL, III, coll. 170-73.

Ireneo Daniele

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