Tricca
Tricca was an ancient city in Thessaly, Greece. It corresponds to modern Trikala.
It was an ancient city, near the Peneius River and on the Lethaeus River. It is mentioned in Homer[1] as the Kingdom of Machaon and Podaleirius, sons of Aesculapius and physicians of the Greek army. It possessed the oldest known temple of Aesculapius, which was discovered in 1902, with a hospital for pilgrims. Tricca is mentioned by other writers.
"Tricca and Stagoi" is the name of a bishopric of the Church of Greece. Tricca is also a Catholic titular see.
Bishops
Socrates Scholasticus,[2] Sozomenes,[3] and Nicephorus Callistus[4] say that Heliodorus, probably the same as the author Heliodorus of Emesa, became Bishop of Tricca. Another bishop was Oecumenius, to whom have been wrongly attributed commentaries on the Acts of the Apostles, the Epistles of St. Paul and the Catholic Epistles (for the works published in his name are not his), and lived at the end of the sixth century. He was an Origenist and Monophysite who wrote a commentary on the Apocalypse.[5]
Some Latin titular bishops in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries are also known.[6]
References
- ^ Homer. The Iliad, II, 729; IV, 202.
- ^ Socrates Scholasticus, V 22.
- ^ Sozomenes, V 12.
- ^ Nicephorus Callistus, XII, 34.
- ^ Petrides "Oecumenius de Tricca, ses oeuvres et son culte" in "Echos d'Orient", VI, 307-10; Le Quien, "Oriens christianus", I, 117-20.
- ^ Eubel, "Hierarchia catholica medii aevi," II, 280; III, 338.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Tricca". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
