The "wings" of the saint: neophytos the recluse and cypriot society (12th-20th century)

• Autores: Anthoullis A. Demosthenous
• Localización: Erytheia: Revista de estudios bizantinos y neogriegos, ISSN 0213-1986, Nº. 31, 2010, págs. 179-193
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The topic of this essay is the cult of Saint Neophytos the Recluse from the 12th century till 20th century. The expression �wings of the Saint� is an allegory for his cult. The �flight� of the Saint took off with high speed and much turbulence when the Bishop Basil Kinnamos honored him as a holy man. However, after his death, his cult gradually declined and became totally marginalized. Neophytos� cult, which was doomed at the beginning of the eighteenth century, was revived by the Church in order to �resurrect� Neophytos. In the twentieth century Neophytos became a Hellenic idea, representing the resistance to the enemies of Hellenism.