APPENDIX TO THEOPHYLACTUS
NOTICE
We subjoin to the works of Theophylactus an appendix not to be despised, namely, the Life of St. Clement, Archbishop of the Bulgarians, who died in the year 916. A fragment of this Life was published from a Vatican codex by Leo Allatius in his *Robertum Creyghtonum*; it was published in its entirety at Moscopolis in the year 1741, 4°, and was subsequently reprinted at Vienna in 1802, and again at Vienna in 1847, with an erudite preface by the most distinguished philologist, Franz Miklosich. Up to this point, however, it had appeared only in Greek; we have added a Latin translation. The most recent Viennese editor denies all credibility to the inscription of the work, in which it is ascribed to our Theophylactus, and thinks that the name of Theophylactus was added to the work for the sake of acquiring greater authority. "St. Theophylactus," he says, "Archbishop of Justiniana Prima and of all Bulgaria, could not be admitted to have written this Life of St. Clement by anyone who has read in the work itself, c. 18, that its author lived contemporaneously with St. Clement, who died in 916, when it is known that Theophylactus reached his end in the year 1107." Add to this that it is gathered from c. 22 that the author was Bulgarian by nationality, insomuch as he narrates: "Clement delivered all things pertaining to the Church to US Bulgarians," whereas Theophylactus, to use his own words (a), "was a Bulgarian only by hospitality, but in reality a Constantinopolitan." That this Life was written at a time when Bulgaria was beingvexed by the Scythians is evident from c. 29: "Holy pastor, may you preserve us, your students, untouched by barbaric incursions, especially now, when affliction is close at hand, and there is no one to assist, when the Scythian sword is sated with Bulgarian blood." The author here seems to speak of the Hungarians, who, seeking Byzantium in the years 934, 943, 959, and 962, devastated Bulgaria; for it is known that they were also called Scythians by the writers of Byzantine history. But let the judgment remain with the reader. One should consult Bernard de Rubeis in his *Dissertation on the Age and Country of Theophylactus*, no. 1 et seqq., prefixed to Volume I of this edition.
(a) In his first epistle to the Empress Maria, above at col. 503 C.
LIFE AND CONVERSATION, PROFESSION AND COMPENDIOUS NARRATION OF THE MIRACLES OF OUR HOLY FATHER CLEMENT, ARCHBISHOP OF THE BULGARIANS, WRITTEN BY THE MOST HOLY AND CELEBRATED ARCHBISHOP OF JUSTINIANA PRIMA AND ALL BULGARIA, LORD THEOPHYLACT, WHO HELD THE OFFICE OF MAGISTER RHETORUM AT CONSTANTINOPLE
1. Come, children, hearken unto me; come, and I will recount unto you, all ye who fear God, so that another generation, children that are to be born, may know, and the people that is created may praise the Lord. These things indeed David said, but we, for our part, say them with him today. For it is necessary that the divine greatness be recounted always and to all, not here alone (for whatever we may have declared and spoken, yet more things will remain to be said); but also because the celebrated magnificence of the miracles of God serves as a certain exhortation, even to those who are more sluggish and sleepy in the performance of good. For the many imagine that our own times cannot be compared with those of old, inasmuch as the former times were both brightened by miracles and adorned by the lives of men who lived almost incorporeally while in the body, whereas to our own generation, they believe, no such thing is granted by God; and hence, they approach a life of virtue with a heavy heart, as if nature now could not bear it, in this they are pitiably deceived, being ignorant and in great error. For the law of nature is the same and does not change, and the Lord has preserved for Himself, even in our own times, very many men who, bending the knee to none of the things that are dragged along the earth, have shone with the light of life unto the glory of the heavenly Father, having become lights in the world and holding fast the word of life. Just as, therefore, they enlightened the land of the Bulgarians in B these latter times, those blessed Fathers and teachers, bright with their teachings and miracles, and glorious in life and word before God, whose entire life it would be my desire to hand down to memory, were it not that this surpasses the power of my speech: yet, by setting forth certain few things, I shall signify the benevolence and grace of God, who is with us and will be unto the end of the days.