Gregory of Cyprus (monk)
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Gregory of Cyprus was a Persian monk, mystic and writer of the Church of the East.[1] Born at Ahvaz in the 6th century, he spent a period of exile working as a gardener for a Greek Orthodox monastery on the island of Cyprus.[2] He afterwards settled on Mount Izla.[1]
Gregory had a reputation for receiving visions.[2] His known writings, all in Syriac, include:
- Chapters on Prayer[3]
- Treatise on the Monastic Life, of which only the seventh and last book, "On Divine Contemplation", survives[4]
- three letters, one to a disciple named Epiphanios[1]
Gregory is sometimes misidentified as the author of the Revelation of Saint Gregory.[5] Gregory's writings were also used in the Syriac Orthodox Church.[1]
