09 — Veneration and Legacy
The feast, the cult, and the final assessment. This closing section sets out the commemoration of Moses on 28 August and the shape of his cult, and then offers a sober assessment of the whole figure — the robber turned saint, the father of non-judgment, the martyr of non-resistance — weighing what his life and witness have meant and what, in the honest light of the sources, can be said of him.
Tradition: Pan-Orthodox (Desert Father; martyr)
Every collection ends by gathering its subject up: the date the Church keeps, the devotion that surrounds it, and the considered judgment of what it all amounts to. This section gives Moses’s feast and cult their account, and then closes with a sober assessment of the man and his significance — neither hagiographical inflation nor reductive dismissal, but a measured estimate of one of the most beloved and most remarkable of the desert fathers.
Files in This Section
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| Feast and Cult | His commemoration on 28 August; the dating across the traditions; the shape and reach of his cult, ancient and modern. |
| Legacy and Assessment | A sober assessment of the whole figure — the robber-turned-saint, the teacher of non-judgment, the martyr of non-resistance — and what his witness has meant for the Church. |
See Also
- Veneration — the cult across East and West
- The Barbarian Raid on Scetis — the martyrdom commemorated
- The Historical Moses — the source-critical ground of the assessment
- Monasticism — the tradition Moses adorns
References
- Ward, Benedicta, trans. The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection. Rev. ed. Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1984.
- Chitty, Derwas J. The Desert a City. Oxford: Blackwell, 1966.
- Harmless, William. Desert Christians. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.