{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/hec/hec08.htm","path":"chr/hec/hec08.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/hec/hec08.htm","text":"Hymns of the Eastern Church, by J.M. Neale, [1884]\nThe first poet who emancipated himself from the tyranny of the old laws\u2014hence to be compared to Venantius Fortunatus in the West\u2014and who boldly struck out the new path of harmonious prose, was S. Anatolius of Constantinople. His commencements were not promising. He had been apocrisiarius, or legate, from the arch-heretic Dioscorus, to the Emperor's Court: and at the death of S. Flavian, in consequence of the violence received in the \"Robbers\u2019 Meeting\" at Ephesus, A.D. 449, was, by the influence of his Pontiff, raised to the vacant throne of Constantinople. He soon, however, vindicated his orthodoxy: and in the Council of Chalcedon, he procured\nthe enactment of the famous 28th Canon, by which, (in spite of all the efforts of Rome,) Constantinople was raised to the second place among Patriarchal Sees. Having governed his Church eight years in peace, he departed to his rest in A.D. 458. His compositions are not numerous, and are almost all short, but they are usually very spirited.","title":"Hymns of the Eastern Church: S. Anatolius: S. Anatolius","type":"page"}