Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. XI, 1953 Church Fathers Fathers and ecclesiastical writers up to the end of the 8th century, anonymous works

Sophronius

SOFRONIO

By Erik Peterson

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SOPHRONIUS. - According to St. Jerome (De vir. illustr., 134), a certain S. wrote in his youth Laudes Bethlehem; later a book on the destruction of the temple of Serapis in Alexandria. Also on virginity and a life of the monk Hilarion.

He had translated into Greek the Psalms and the Prophets in St. Jerome's translation from the Latin. He was still alive in 392, the date of the composition of the De viris illustribus. Nothing of these works has been preserved. It has been hypothesized that the Greek translations of St. Jerome's Life of St. Hilarion and of St. Malchus were the work of S. This has nothing to do with another S. who in the 7th century translated St. Jerome's De viris illustribus.

Bibliography

BIBL.: Bardenhewer, III, p. 283.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI (1953), col. 906.

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Chicago

Peterson, Erik. “Sofronio.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, col. 906. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/sofronio.

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Peterson, Erik. “Sofronio.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, col. 906. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/sofronio.

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@incollection{ec11_sofronio,
  author    = {Peterson, Erik},
  title     = {Sofronio},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {XI},
  pages     = {906},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1953},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/sofronio}
}

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