Fathers

Georgius Peccator

Known only by the name the poem gives, "George the sinner". The same short prayer to Christ is also counted as the last of the hymns of Synesius of Cyrene (c. 410) and is printed with them in Migne's Greek Fathers, volume 66. When George lived is not known.

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Hymn 2 sectionslistenA short prayer in verse by George, who calls himself a sinner, asking Christ to free him from his passions and let him see Christ's light and sing.