“Pillar of Faith”: The Cult of the Ascetic Saints Simeon Stylites and Sabbas the Sanctified in the Icon Painting of the Peremyshl Diocese of the Ukrainian Church in the 15th

“Pillar of Faith”: The Cult of the Ascetic Saints Simeon Stylites and Sabbas the Sanctified in the Icon Painting of the Peremyshl Diocese of the Ukrainian Church in the 15th–18th CenturiesIkonSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/NINUHB4A/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.RoksolanaKosiv“Pillar of Faith”: The Cult of the Ascetic Saints Simeon Stylites and Sabbas the Sanctified in the Icon Painting of the Peremyshl Diocese of the Ukrainian Church in the 15th–18th Centurieshttp://syriaca.org/cbss/NINUHB4Ahttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/NINUHB4Ahttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/NINUHB4AIkon14202157-66This article examines how regional religious identity and hagiography influenced iconography of the two saints of the early Church - Simeon Stylites and Sabbas the Sanctified, both from Asia Minor - in the Peremyshl diocese of the Ukrainian (then called Rus’ka) Church of the Kyiv metropolitanate from the 15th until the first half of the 18th centuries. The Peremyshl diocese, the westernmost part of the Kyivan metropolitanate, officially accepted the union in 1691, but for more than half a century its faithful preserved the ancient traditions of iconography and ritual. The cult and iconography of the holy monks Simeon Stylites and Sabbas the Sanctified in particular, reveal the connection with the Byzantine tradition. We can trace this connection on icons of the 15th-first half of the 18th century, most of which come from churches dedicated to these saints in villages established during the medieval princely period. From the middle of the 18th century, with the intensification of Latinization, the iconography of both saints ceased to develop. The life stories of Simeon Stylites and Sabbas the Sanctified on the icons correspond with their written lives in 16th -17th-centuries manuscripts and printed books from the churches of the Peremyshl diocese. According to these texts, Simeon Stylites the Elder was the most popular of the stylites, which is also confirmed by the preserved icons. Kosiv, Roksolana. “‘Pillar of Faith’: The Cult of the Ascetic Saints Simeon Stylites and Sabbas the Sanctified in the Icon Painting of the Peremyshl Diocese of the Ukrainian Church in the 15th–18th Centuries.” Ikon 14 (2021): 57–66. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1484/J.IKON.5.128291. Roksolana Kosiv, ‘Pillar of Faith’: The Cult of the Ascetic Saints Simeon Stylites and Sabbas the Sanctified in the Icon Painting of the Peremyshl Diocese of the Ukrainian Church in the 15th–18th Centuries, Ikon 14 (2021): 57–66, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1484/J.IKON.5.128291.Simeon the StyliteSyriac influence [Slavs]VII-XVIII CEarticonographymonasticismsaintsstylites