GREGORY OF CASSANO, Saint. - Basilian monk of the 10th century, born at Cassano allo Ionio around 930, he took the monastic habit in the monastery of St. Andrew of Cerchiara, then governed by St. Pachomius, whom he succeeded in 960. Having escaped a Saracen raid, in order to avoid being taken to Constantinople he went to Rome, where he founded the monastery of St. Saviour, splendidly endowed by the empress Theophano, who, around 990, persuaded him to follow her to Germany. There he founded the Greek monastery of Sts. Apollinaris and Nicholas, at Burtscheid, near Aachen, which became a center of Byzantine influence for all of Germany. There he died in 1002.

Bibliography

BIBL.: The life of St. G. is known only from Latin sources. There is a double recension of it in two Vienna codices: the shorter, mutilated one is the older, while the longer, more recent one echoes the legends about the royal origins of St. G. and his kinship with Theophano. Both recensions have been published by O. Holder-Egger, in MGH, Scriptores, XV, pp. 1185-99, and in Acta SS. Novembris, 2 (1894), pp. 469-77. Cf. F. Russo, Sulla Vita Gregorii Abbatis, in Boll. d. Badia greca di Grottaferrata, nuova serie, 2 (1948), pp. 192-205.

Francesco Russo

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Gregory of Cassano, Saint

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