[이콘]하느님의 독생자로 태어난 하느님의 말씀

북부러시아.1700년경.29 x 25cm.저화면(低畵面)

이 희귀한 주제는 요한 크리소스토모스(Johannes Chrysostomos)가 저술한

예배 의식의 문장에서 전래되었다.

화면의 윗 가장자리에 가까운 중앙에는 구름 속의 성부가 보인다.

좌우 양편에 하나님의 천사들이 각각 해와 달을 들고 구름 속에 무릎을 꿇고 앉아 있다.

성부의 아래에는 구약 성서적인 성 삼위 일체를 묘사한 것을 볼 수 있다.

그림의 좌우 양편의 모서리에는 시온과 예루살렘을 상징하는 건물이 보이는데,

건물 앞에는 각각 한 명의 천사가 서있다.

왼쪽에 서있는 천사의 아래에는 십자가에 못박힌 그리스도가 보이며,

오른쪽에는 한 개의 메달안에 표상의 성모가 그려져 있다.

성 삼위일체 아래에는 두 명의 천사가 받들고 있는 천국을 상징하는 후광 속에 그리스도가 보인다.

무릎을 꿇은 천사들은 얼굴을 후광으로부터 약간 돌리고 있다.

그 아래에는 무덤속의 그리스도와 그 곁에 서있는 성모가 보인다.

그림의 아랫 왼쪽 모서리에는 암산(巖山)의 한 동굴 속에 군병인 그리스도가 십자가의 횡목위에 앉아 있다.

그 왼편 옆에는 한 천사가 막대기로 마귀들을 내쫓고 있다.

오른쪽에도 역시 암산의 한 동굴 속에 관대(棺臺)에 얹혀 있는 시체 위를 한 사자(死者)가 말을 타고 달린다.

그는 어깨에 큰 낫을 메고 있다.

(유럽 聖畵(ICON)集에서)

*성 요한 크리소스토모스 축일:9월13일.게시판1363번.

축일:1월 9일

켄터베리의 성 아드리아노

Saint Adrian of Canterbury

c.635 in North Africa as Hadrian -

9 January 710 of natural causes at Canterbury, England, and buried there;

tomb a site of miracles; body found incorrupt in 1091

Canonized :Pre-Congregation

아프리카 태생인 아드리아노는 나폴리 근처 네리다 수도원의 원장이 되었으며,

켄터버리 대주교로서 임명을 거절하였다.

그러나 희랍 수도자인 테오도로는 그를 켄터버리의 성 베드로와 바오로 수도원장으로 임명하였다.

39년 동안 지낸 수도원 장상직을 통하여 그는 수도원 쇄신에 정력을 기울였다.

성서에 해박한 지식을 지녔을 뿐만 아니라 훌륭한 관리자였으며,

희랍과 라틴 학문에도 조예가 깊어서 켄터버리 수도원 학교 교육에 지대한 영향을 끼쳤다.

이리하여 수도원이 배움의 전당으로서 자리를 굳히는데 결정적인 역할을 하였다.

영국 교회는 위의 두 성인 생존시에 최대의 번영을 누렸다고 한다.

아드리아노는 710년 1월 9일 켄터버리에서 사망하였고,

그는 수도원 성당에 안장되었는데, 이 무덤이 기적을 낳는 곳으로 즉시 유명해지게 되었다.

(성바오로수도회홈에서)

아프리카 태생인 성 하드리아누스(Hadrianus, 또는 하드리아노)는

이탈리아의 나폴리(Napoli) 근처 네리다 수도원의 원장이 되었으며 캔터베리 대주교 임명을 거절하였다.

대신에 그는 그리스 수도자인 테오도루스(Theodorus)를 적당한 후보자로 추천했고

교황 비탈리아누스(Vitalianus)가 이를 승인하였다.

이 후 성 테오도루스는 하드리아누스를 캔터베리의 성 베드로(Petrus)와 바오로(Paulus) 수도원장으로 임명하였다.

39년 동안 수도원 장상직을 수행하면서 그는 수도원 쇄신에 정력을 기울였다.

성서에 해박한 지식을 지녔을 뿐만 아니라 훌륭한 관리자였으며,

그리스와 라틴 학문에도 조예가 깊어서 캔터베리 수도원 학교 교육에 지대한 영향을 끼쳤다.

그래서 수도원이 배움의 전당으로서 자리를 굳히는데 결정적인 역할을 하였다.

영국 교회는 위의 두 성인이 살아있을 때 최대의 번영을 누렸다고 한다.

하드리아누스는 710년 1월 9일 캔터베리에서 사망하여 수도원 성당에 안장되었다.

그의 무덤은 곧 기적을 낳는 곳으로 유명해지게 되었다.

(가톨릭홈에서)

♬17.Canto Gregoriano-Improperium

ADRIAN of Canterbury

Memorial

9 January

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In the mid 640’s, his family fled to Naples, Italy ahead of Arab invasion. Benedictine monk when quite young. Abbot of Hiridanum, Isle of Nisida, Bay of Naples. Aquainted with Emperor Constans II, who later introduced him to Pope Vitalian. Advisor to Vitalian.

Twice offered the Archbishopric of Canterbury, England; he declined, citing unworthiness. When Saint Theodore of Tarsus was sent instead, Adrian went as his assistant. Detained in France due to suspicions of espionage for the emperor. Arrived in England in 669. Abbot of Saint Peter’s, a monastery founded by Augustine of Canterbury.

Adrian and Theodore were highly successful missionaries in largely pagan England. In addition, Adrian was a great teacher of languages, mathematics, poetry, astronomy, and Bible study. Under his leadership, the School of Canterbury became the center of English learning. Worked to unify the customs of the English with the Church, and to promote Roman customs.

Born

c.635 in North Africa as Hadrian

Died

9 January 710 of natural causes at Canterbury, England, and buried there; tomb a site of miracles; body found incorrupt in 1091

Canonized

Pre-Congregation

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Saint Adrian of Canterbury

Feast Day: January 9

Young Families

We all know about men and women who travelled to China and Africa and South Seas Islands as missionaries, to bring the Word of Christ to these distant lands. But many centuries ago, when the Church was still young and hadn’t spread to Europe, people would travel from Judea or Egypt to other lands as missionaries. Saint Adrian was born in Africa, but ended his days as a missionary to the people of England.

Saint Adrian was an Abbot of a monastery near Naples, Italy when the Archbishop of Canterbury died in 664. Pope Vitalian asked Adrian to travel to Canterbury as the next Archbishop. (Adrian was then an Abbot of a monastery near Naples.) Adrian refused, saying that he was not good enough for the job and suggested that the Pope send Saint Theodore of Tarsus instead. Saint Adrian offered to go to Canterbury as Saint Theodore’s assistant.

Once they arrived in England, Theodore and Adrian went about teaching the Gospel. Most of England was still pagan, and There was much work to be done, to build the Christian Church in England. Adrian’s job consisted mainly of establishing monasteries and schools. Together, they successfully spread the Christian faith in England so that it soon became a Christian country.

Saint Adrian died in the year 710. Saint Adrian’s feast day is on the 9th on January.

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Practiced Families

Saint Adrian is less well known than Saint Thomas a Becket, who was martyred on the altar of Canterbury Cathedral, but no less important to the English Catholic Church. Saint Adrian, having rejected the position of Archbishop of Canterbury for himself, accompanied Saint Theodore of Tarsus as an assistant and advisor. When they both reached England, Theodore was confirmed as Archbishop and Adrian took up the position of Abbot in the nearby monastery of Saint Peter and Paul.

As Abbot, he had a far-reaching and long lasting influence, first on the young men in the monastery and then on the development of Christianity in England. Saint Adrian was learned in the Scriptures, well versed in the writings of the Church, and a scholar of both Greek and Latin. Students flocked to the monastery to learn from the saint, and from there, carried the teaching to the rest of the land.

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Experienced Families

A native of Africa, as was Saint Augustine some three hundred years before, Saint Adrian was the abbot os a monastery near Monte Cassino in Italy. Pope St. Vitalian considered him as the best replacement of Saint Deusdedit, the archbishop of Canterbury. Adrian seemed to be the perfect leader for a nation new in its Christianity. known for his piety and a skilled and patient instructor, his talents were well suited to the needs of a community and nation. Yet Adrian demurred saying that he was not fitted for such a great dignity. He said that he would find someone else more suited for the task. After one suggested substitute became ill, he suggested Saint Theodore of Tarsus. The Pope reluctantly agreed, but sent him with Theodore as assistant and advisor.

Adrian readily consented to this compromise. It was agreed that Adrian would accompany Theodore to England as his assistant and adviser. On March 26, 668, Theodore was consecrated archbishop of Canterbury and two months later the two set sail for England. After some adventures in France, when Adrian was arrested by the mayor of Neustria as an agent of the Eastern Emperor, and Theodore had to travel on alone, the two were reunited in England.

They were a perfect team. Theodore appointed Adrian abbot of SS Peter and Paul abbey, afterward called Saint Augustine’s, at Canterbury. The abbot also helped the archbishop in his pastoral undertakings. There can be no doubt that the flourishing of the English Church in Theodore’s time owed much to Adrian.

The school at Saints Peter and Paul abbey also contributed to the promulgation of the Faith in England. Into the minds of his students, Adrian "poured the waters of wholesome knowledge day by day," according to Bede. The school became famous for its teaching. Bede records that Saint Adrian was ’very learned in the Holy Scriptures, very experienced in administering the church and the monastery, and a great Greek and Latin scholar.’ He also is said to have commented that some of Adrian’s students spoke Latin and Greek equally as well as their native languages.In addition to teaching these languages, Adrian taught poetry, astronomy and math, as well as Scripture and virtue.

Adrian was known for miracles that helped students in trouble with their masters, and miracles were associated with his tomb in Saint Augustine’s Church.

by Catherine Fournier

St. Adrian of Canterbury
(AD 635-710)
Abbot of Nisida, Naples, Italy
Abbot of St. Augustine's, Canterbury
Born: circa AD 635 probably in Libya Cyrenaica, North Africa
Died: 9th January AD 710 at Canterbury, Kent

Adrian, or perhaps more properly, Hadrian, was born in the Greek speaking regions of North African in the mid AD 630s. At about the age of ten, his family fled the Arab invasions of their homeland and settled in Naples, then an dual Greek & Latin speaking outpost of the Byzantine Empire. The area boasted many distinguished monastery and, as a youth, Adrian, not surprisingly, decided to become a monk.

He eventually rose to become the Abbot of Hiridanum (the Isle of Nisida), in the Bay of Naples and, it was while holding this post, that he is thought to have become acquainted with the Emperor Constans II. In AD 663, the Emperor spent the best part of a year in Naples while his troops tried to recover the Imperial lands of Southern Italy taken by the Lombards. Surely he would have become friends with many of the leading churchmen in the city? Adrian certainly served his Imperial Majesty twice in an ambassadorial role during subsequent years. It also seems highly probable that it was Constans who introduced Adrian to Pope Vitalian whilst visiting to Rome from his temporary Neapolitan abode.

Adrian quickly became an esteemed advisor to the Pontiff and, three years later, he was offered the Archbishopric of Canterbury. He politely declined the Papal invitation in favour of Theodore of Tarsus, but was persuaded to accompany the latter to England as a trusted counsellor.

The two travelled separately. During Adrian’s journey across Europe,he was detained for some time by Ebroin, the Mayor of the Palace of Neaustria (in modern France). King Theodoric III of the Franks suspected that he might again be acting as an Imperial ambassador and thus forced him to spent the winter of AD 668 in Meaux; after which, his departure was finally agreed.

Upon his arrival in Britain, Adrian immediately succeeded Benedict Biscop in his temporary appointment as Abbot of St. Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury. The former soon established a flourishing monastic school there, where many future bishops and abbots were educated in Latin, Greek, scripture, theology, Roman law and arithmetic. It was said to have outshone the best educational facilities of Western Europe.

Saints O'the Day
January 9

 
Adrian of Canterbury, OSB, Abbot (AC)
Born in Africa; died at Canterbury, England, January 9, 710.
Saint Adrian became abbot at Nerida near Naples, Italy. Upon the death of Saint Deusdedit, the archbishop of Canterbury (England), Pope Saint Vitalian chose Adrian to replace the bishop because of his great learning and piety. Adrian seemed to be the perfect leader for a nation new in its Christianity. Yet Adrian demurred saying that he was not fitted for such a great dignity. He said that he would find someone else more suited for the task.

The first substitute was too ill to become archbishop. Again the pope urged the post on Adrian. Again Adrian begged permission to find someone else. At that time a Greek monk from Tarsus named Theodore was in Rome. Adrian nominated Theodore to the pope. Theodore was willing to become archbishop of Canterbury, but only if Adrian agreed to come to England and help him. Adrian readily consented to this compromise. It was agreed that Adrian would accompany Theodore to England as his assistant and adviser. On March 26, 668, Theodore was consecrated archbishop of Canterbury and two months later the two set sail for England.

They were a perfect team. Theodore appointed Adrian abbot of SS Peter and Paul abbey, afterward called Saint Augustine's, at Canterbury, where he taught Greek and Latin for 39 years. Here Adrian's learning and virtues were best employed. In addition to these languages, Adrian taught poetry, astronomy and math, as well as Scripture and virtue.

Into the minds of his students, Adrian "poured the waters of wholesome knowledge day by day," according to the Venerable Bede. The school became famous for its teaching and trained such stellars as Saints Aldhelm and Oftfor. Bede records that Saint Adrian was 'very learned in the Holy Scriptures, very experienced in administering the church and the monastery, and a great Greek and Latin scholar.' He also is said to have commented that some of Adrian's students spoke Latin and Greek equally as well as their native languages.

The abbot also helped the archbishop in his pastoral undertakings. There can be no doubt that the flourishing of the English Church in Theodore's time owed much to Adrian.

Adrian was known for miracles that helped students in trouble with their masters, and miracles were associated with his tomb in Saint Augustine's Church (Attwater, Benedictines, Bentley, Delaney, Encyclopedia, Gill, Walsh, White).