THE BISHOPS OF DOR. 



FIDUS. 



Lequien' has collected records of five early bishops of Dor. The 

 first of these is Fidus, who belongs in the last quarter of the fifth 

 century. Apparently Dor had been rebuilt since the time of 

 Jerome, when it was in ruins\ The references to Fidus, Lequien 

 quotes from the "Vita sancti Euthymii abbatis, apud Cotelerium 

 to. 2 monum. eccl. Graec." This biography of St. Euthymius 

 was written by the monk Cyril hts of Scythopolis^ Lequien's quota- 

 tions of the passages from the life of Euthymius relative to Fidus, 

 and his comments on these quotations follow. 



Nam n. 60. j). 249. narrat ' Fidum ' Fidi Joppensis episcopi 

 nepotem, Anastasium, qui postea Hierosolymitanus evasit Patri- 

 archa iuxta Euthj^raii prophetiam, comitatum esse ad eundem 

 Euthymium invisendum euntem: " Quum ergo desiderium videndi 

 hominis (Euthymii) in se aleret, Fido Joppes episcojjo, & Cosinae 

 Crucum custodi pulchram illam communicat cupiditatera ; atque eos 

 assumens, quin etiam Fidum alterum episcopi Fidi nepotem, (erat 

 autem is adhuc aetate iuvenis, & in chorum lectorum cooptatus; 

 qui etiam Cyriaco monacho haec tradidit & narravit :) cum iis 

 proficiscitur ad magnum Euthymium, etc." Id contigit ante 

 Juvenalis Patriarchae Hierosolymitani obitum, cui successit Anas- 

 tasius modo memoratus anno 458. qui " Statim (ut refertur ibid, 

 num. 96. pag 20) Fidura, qui ad lauram cum ipso accesserat, 

 audieratque praedictiones (Euthymii,) ordinat diaconum, & rursus 

 ad magnum (Euthymium) mittit una cum custode crucis; tum pro- 

 phetiae significans eventum, tum rogans sibi permitti ad eum 

 pergere, etc." Xum. 110. adfuit praesens Euthymii funeribus an. 

 473, die 20. Januar, defuncti. "Fama celeriter (mortis Euthymii) 

 per omnem finitimam regionem sparsa," inquit Cyrillus ibid. pag. 

 294, " monachorum & laicorum multitudo vix numerabilis congre- 

 gata est; quin etiam Anastasius Hierosolymorum Patriarcha, 

 assumto secum clericorum simul & militum examine, accessit. 



^ Oriens CJu-istianus (Paris 1740) III, pp. 574-9. 



- See above, p. 99. 



^ Oriens Christ. Ill, p. 575. 



