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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA GRAECO-CATHOLICA VARADIENSIS - Issue no. 1 / 2007  
         
  Article:   THE EXILE OF SAINT SIMON THE NEW THEOLOGIAN AND THE LAST PART OF HIS LIFE.

Authors:  CĂLIN-IOAN DUŞE. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The exile of Saint Simon the New Theologian and the last part of His Life. On the 3rd of January 1003, after receiving the Synod’s verdict, Saint Symeon the New Theologian is sent into exile to Palukiton, on the coast of Asia. He settled at a chapel dedicated to St. Marina. After arriving there, the first thing Saint Symeon the New Theologian did was showing his joyful gratitude to God for all he had to suffer. He wrote two letters to Stephen of Nicomedia in which he thanked him for his attitude. These letters carried more of an ironical gratitude, showing that he has been suffering for seven years because of his persecutions. A great number of disciples and followers of St. Symeon the New Theologian sent a complaining letter to the Patriarch, through senator Genesios, who was a spiritual son of St. Symeon. In this letter, they asked for the revision of the trial which unjustly convicted St. Symeon. St. Symeon the New Theologian was rehabilitated, but he refused the archibishop''''s chair offered to him by the Patriarch and he returned to the solitude of St. Marina’s monastery, far from the capital’s restless life, where he approximatively died the 12th of March 1022, at the age of 73. He was canonized in 1053 and his name has been revered ever since, due to his life field with sanctity.  
         
     
         
         
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