Matthaeus or Matthaeus Panaretus
Ματταῖος
(Ματταῖος), literary and ecclesiastical.
1. ANGELUS, surnamed PANARETUS (Ἄγγελος ὁ Παναρέτος), was a Byzantine monk, who held the office of ecclesiastical quaestor, but whose time is very uncertain. Cave, however, thinks him to be identical with the monk Panaretus Protovestiarius, mentioned by Pachymeres (5.17, 21), and who was one of the ecclesiastical ambassadors, whom the emperor Michael VIII. Palaeologus sent in 1273 (74) to pope Gregory X. and the Council of Lyon, for the purpose of effecting a re-union of the Latin and Greek churches.
Works
Works extant in MSS
Matthaeus wrote: 1. Antithesis contra Thomam Aquinatem de Processione Spiritus Sancti. 2. Against the same a treatise on the purgatory, entitled Πῶς ἐστὶν ὁ ἐνδικὸν τόπος ἔνθα αἱ ψυχαὶ καθαίρονται πρὶν, &c. 3. Dissertatio contra Latinos de Primatu Papae. 4. Refutatio Sex Capitum a Latinis editorum in Defensionem Processionis Spiritus Sancti ex Patre et Filio. 5. Demonstratio in quot Absurditates Latini incident dum Spiritum Sanctum etiam a Filio procedere asserunt. 6. Dissert. de aliis XXII. Latinorum Erroribus. 7. Dissert. contra Latinos de Azymis. These works are extant in MSS.
Further Information
Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. p. 76; Cave, Hist. Liter. Append. p. 174, ed. Geneva.
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