Proclus of Constantinople (ps.-Chrysostom), Homily 6, On the Mother of God (CPG 5805 = BHG 1110, 1126e)
The sermon is mostly exegetical, focusing on the doctrine of the Incarnation of Christ and its Old Testament prefigurations.
Evidence ID
E05459Saint Name
Mary, Mother of Christ : S00033Saint Name in Source
ΜαρίαType of Evidence
Literary - Sermons/HomiliesEvidence not before
406Evidence not after
446Activity not before
406Activity not after
446Place of Evidence - Region
Constantinople and regionPlace of Evidence - City, village, etc
ConstantinoplePlace of evidence - City name in other Language(s)
Constantinople
Constantinople
Κωνσταντινούπολις
Konstantinoupolis
Constantinopolis
Constantinople
IstanbulMajor author/Major anonymous work
Proclus of ConstantinopleCult activities - Liturgical Activity
Cult activities - Festivals
Cult Activities - Protagonists in Cult and Narratives
Ecclesiastics - bishopsSource
The life and career of Proclus of Constantinople (c. 380-446) are closely tied into the vibrant intellectual life and tumultuous ecclesiastical politics of Constantinople under the Theodosian dynasty. He was born around AD 380 in Constantinople, where he was trained in rhetoric. An associate of John Chrysostom, his clerical career started under bishop Atticus of Constantinople (406-425) whom he served as a secretary and author of his sermons, and by whom he was ordained to the priesthood. He was elected bishop of Cyzicus in 426, but never took up residence at his see, and continued to reside at Constantinople. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the episcopal throne of Constantinople in 426, 427, and 431, till he was appointed to it at the death of bishop Maximian (431-434). Proclus’ main claim to fame was his celebrated sermons on the Virgin Mary, which he delivered during the episcopate of Nestorius, and which became fundamental texts for the Christology and Mariology of the Council of Ephesus (431). Most of his surviving works are homiletic, on the major feast days of the Church of Constantinople, whose liturgical tradition and calendar were then taking their shape. The relatively small corpus of his genuine works has not been fully assembled yet, and there are a number of dubious or spurious works ascribed to him.
The attribution of this text to Proclus is uncertain.
On the manuscript tradition, see Leroy 1967, 288, and:
http://pinakes.irht.cnrs.fr/notices/oeuvre/6920/Bibliography
Text, French translation, and commentary:
Leroy, F. J. L'homilétique de Proclus de Constantinople. Studi e Testi 247. Città del Vaticano, 1967, 273-327.
Further reading:
Constas, N. P. Proclus of Constantinople and the Cult of the Virgin in Late Antiquity: Homilies 1-5, Texts and Translations. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 66. Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2003.
