A fourteenth-century manual of Hesychast prayer
Subtitle: the Century of St. Kallistos and St. Ignatios Xanthopoulos
By: Kallistos Ware.
Contributors: Canadian Institute of Balkan Studies.
Publisher: Canadian Institute of Balkan Studies
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Xanthopoulos, Kallistos, -- 14th cent.; Xanthopoulos, Ignatios, -- 14th cent.; Philokalia -- History and criticism.; Hesychasm -- Early works to 1800.; Prayer -- Early works to 1800.; Spiritual life -- Orthodox Eastern authors.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Century of St. Kallistos and St. Ignatios Xanthopoulos
Notes: "Chronologically the Century is one of the latest texts in The Philokalia. Concerning the lives of the two authors little is known with certainty. There is one firmly established fact: in May 1397, during Bayezid's investment of Constantinople Kallistos Xanthopoulos became Ecumenical Patriarch. He was the second of that name, not to be confused with his better-known predecessor Kallistos I ... For further information about Kallistos and Ignatios Xanthopoulos we are largely dependent on St. Symeon of Thessalonica (d. 1429) ... who devotes a chapter to them in his work On Prayer." -- P. 4-5.

Includes bibliographical references.