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Christian saint

Saint Dismas the Expert Thief
Russian Icon of the Adept Thief in Paradise by Moscow school, c. 1560
First Saint, Penitent Thief, Expert Thief, The Good Thief on the Cantankerous
Born	Galilee, Kingdom of Judea, Roman Empire
Died	c. thirty–33 Advertizing Golgotha Colina outside Jerusalem, Judea, Roman Empire (today Israel)
Venerated in	Eastern Orthodox Church Catholic Church building
Canonized	c. 30–33 AD, Golgotha Loma outside Jerusalem past Jesus Christ[ane]
Major shrine	Church of Saint Dismas the Proficient Thief, Dannemora, New York, U.s.a.
Feast	25 March (Roman Catholic) Good Friday (Eastern Orthodox)
Attributes	Wearing a loincloth and either holding his cross or being crucified; sometimes depicted in Paradise.
Patronage	Prisoners (particularly condemned) Funeral directors Repentant thieves Merizo, Guam San Dimas, Mexico

The Penitent Thief, also known equally the Skilful Thief, Wise Thief, Grateful Thief or the Thief on the Cross, is one of two unnamed thieves in Luke's account of the crucifixion of Jesus in the New Attestation. The Gospel of Luke describes him asking Jesus to "call up him" when Jesus comes into his kingdom. The other, every bit the impenitent thief, challenges Jesus to save himself and both of them to prove that he is the Messiah.

He is officially venerated in the Catholic Church. The Roman Martyrology places his celebration on 25 March, together with the Feast of the Declaration, because of the ancient Christian tradition^[ii] that Christ (and the penitent thief) were crucified and died exactly on the ceremony of Christ's incarnation.

He is given the name Dismas in the Gospel of Nicodemus and is traditionally known in Catholicism as Saint Dismas ^[3] (sometimes Dysmas; in Castilian and Portuguese, Dimas ). Other traditions have bestowed other names:

• In Coptic Orthodox tradition and the Narrative of Joseph of Arimathea, he is named Demas.^{[4] [5]}
• In the Codex Colbertinus, he is named Zoatham or Zoathan.^[six]
• In the Arabic Infancy Gospel, he is named Titus.^[7]
• In Russian Orthodox tradition, he is named Rakh (Russian: Рах).^[8]

Gospel of Luke [edit]

Narrative [edit]

The Russian Orthodox icon of The Skillful Thief in Paradise, circa 16th century in Rostov, Kremlin

2 men were crucified at the aforementioned time every bit Jesus, 1 on his right and ane on his left,^[9] which the Gospel of Marker interprets as fulfillment of the prophecy of Isaiah 53:12 ("And he was numbered with the transgressors").^[x] According to the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, respectively, both of the thieves mocked Jesus;^[11] Luke, however, relates:

³⁹ At present ane of the criminals hanging in that location reviled Jesus, saying, "Are yous non the Messiah? Save yourself and us."

^twoscore The other, notwithstanding, rebuking him, said in reply, "Have you no fear of God, for y'all are subject to the same condemnation? ⁴¹ And indeed, we have been condemned justly, for the sentence we received corresponds to our crimes, simply this human has done nil criminal." ⁴² Then he said, "Jesus, retrieve me, when you come up into your kingdom."

⁴³ He replied to him, "Amen, I say to y'all, today yous will be with me in Paradise."^[12]

Attempts accept been made to reconcile the apparent contradiction betwixt Luke'southward account and that of Mark and Matthew. Augustine of Hippo suggested that the authors of Marker and Matthew, for the sake of concision, employed a figure of speech whereby the plural was put for the singular.^[13] Later commentators, such as Frederic Farrar, have drawn attention to the difference between the Greek words used: "The two showtime Synoptists tell u.s.a. that both the robbers during an early part of the hours of crucifixion reproached Jesus (ὠνείδιζον), simply we learn from St Luke that only i of them used injurious and insulting linguistic communication to Him (ἐβλασφήμει)."^[14]

"Amen ... today ... in paradise" [edit]

The phrase translated "Amen, I say to you, today you lot volition be in paradise" in Luke 23:43 ("Ἀμήν σοι λέγω σήμερον μετ' ἐμοῦ ἔσῃ ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ."^[15] Amén soi légo sémeron met' emoû ése en tôi paradeísoi) is disputed in a minority of versions and commentaries. The Greek manuscripts are without punctuation, then attribution of the adverb "today" to the verb "be", as "Amen I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise" (the majority view), or the verb "say", as "Amen I say to yous today, you volition exist with me in paradise" (the minority view), is dependent on analysis of word society conventions in Koine Greek. The bulk of aboriginal Bible translations also follow the bulk view, with only the Aramaic linguistic communication Curetonian Gospels offering significant testimony to the minority view.^[16] Every bit a result, some prayers recognize the expert thief equally the but person confirmed as a saint—that is, a person known to be in Paradise after death—by the Bible, and by Jesus himself. Thomas Aquinas wrote:

The words of The Lord (This mean solar day ... in paradise) must therefore be understood non of an earthly or corporeal paradise, but of that spiritual paradise in which all may be, said to exist, who are in the enjoyment of the divine celebrity. Hence to place, the thief went up with Christ to sky, that he might be with Christ, as it was said to him: "Thou shalt be with Me in Paradise"; but every bit to advantage, he was in Paradise, for he there tasted and enjoyed the divinity of Christ, together with the other saints.^{[17] [18] [19]}

Unnamed [edit]

Only the Gospel of Luke describes one of the criminals as penitent, and that gospel does not name him.

Augustine of Hippo does not proper noun the thief, but wonders if he might not take been baptized at some point.^[20]

According to tradition,^[21] the Skilful Thief was crucified to Jesus' correct and the other thief was crucified to his left. For this reason, depictions of the crucifixion of Jesus ofttimes show Jesus' caput inclined to his right, showing his credence of the Skilful Thief. In the Russian Orthodox Church building, both crucifixes and crosses are normally made with three bars: the summit one, representing the titulus (the inscription that Pontius Pilate wrote and was nailed above Jesus' head); the longer crossbar on which Jesus' hands were nailed; and a slanted bar at the bottom representing the footrest to which Jesus' feet were nailed. The footrest is slanted, pointing upwardly towards the Adept Thief, and pointing downwardly towards the other.

According to John Chrysostom, the thief dwelt in the desert and robbed or murdered anyone unlucky plenty to cross his path. Co-ordinate to Pope Gregory I, he "was guilty of claret, fifty-fifty his brother'southward blood" (fratricide).^{[17] [18] [xix]}

Named [edit]

"Dismas" [edit]

Luke'south unnamed penitent thief was later assigned the name Dismas in an early Greek recension of the Acta Pilati and the Latin Gospel of Nicodemus, portions of which may be dated to the late fourth century. The proper name "Dismas" may have been adjusted from a Greek word significant "sunset" or "death".^[3] The other thief'southward name is given every bit Gestas. In Syriac Infancy Gospel'due south Life of the Good Thief (Histoire Du Bon Larron French 1868, English 1882), Augustine of Hippo said, the thief said to Jesus, the child: "O most blessed of children, if ever a time should come when I shall crave Thy Mercy, remember me and forget not what has passed this day."^{[17] [18] [nineteen]}

Anne Catherine Emmerich saw the Holy Family unit "exhausted and helpless"; according to Augustine of Hippo and Peter Damian, the Holy Family met Dismas, in these circumstances.^[22] Pope Theophilus of Alexandria (385–412) wrote a Homily on the Crucifixion and the Good Thief, which is a archetype of Coptic literature.

"Demas" [edit]

In Coptic Orthodoxy, he is named Demas.^[4] This is the proper noun given to him in the Narrative of Joseph of Arimathea.^[5]

"Titus" [edit]

The counterfeit Syriac Infancy Gospel calls the two thieves Titus and Dumachus, and adds a tale nigh how Titus (the expert ane) prevented the other thieves in his company from robbing Mary and Joseph during their flight into Egypt.

"Rakh" [edit]

In the Russian tradition, the Good Thief's name is "Rakh" (Russian: Рах).^{[ commendation needed ]}

Sainthood [edit]

The Catholic Church remembers the Expert Thief on 25 March. In the Roman Martyrology, the following entry is given: "Commemoration of the holy thief in Jerusalem who confessed to Christ and canonized him by Jesus himself^[23] on the cantankerous at that moment and merited to hear from him: 'Today you volition be with me in Paradise.'" A number of towns, including San Dimas, California, are named afterwards him. As well, parish churches are named after him, such as the Church of the Good Thief in Kingston, Ontario, Canada—congenital by convicts at nearby Kingston Penitentiary, Saint Dismas Church in Waukegan, Illinois, the One-time Catholic Parish of St Dismas in Coseley and the Church of St. Dismas, the Good Thief, a Catholic church at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York.

The Eastern Orthodox Church building remembers him on Good Friday, along with the crucifixion. The Synaxarion offers this couplet in his honor:

Eden'southward locked gates the Thief has opened wide,
By putting in the key, "Remember me."

He is commemorated in a traditional Eastern Orthodox prayer said earlier receiving the eucharist: "I will not speak of Thy Mystery to Thine enemies, neither like Judas volition I give Thee a kiss; but like the thief volition I confess Thee: Think me, O Lord in Thy Kingdom."^[24]

Art [edit]

In medieval art, St Dismas is often depicted as accompanying Jesus in the Harrowing of Hell as related in i Peter 3:nineteen–20 and the Apostles' Creed (though neither text mentions the thief).

In the Eastern Orthodox Church, 1 of the hymns of Expert Fri is entitled, "The Practiced Thief" (or "The Wise Thief", Church Slavonic: "Razboinika blagorazumnago"), and speaks of how Christ granted Dismas Paradise.^[25] Several compositions of this hymn^[26] are used in the Russian Orthodox Church and form one of the highlights of the Matins service on Good Friday.

In Samuel Beckett'due south Waiting for Godot, the main characters Vladimir and Estragon briefly hash out the inconsistencies betwixt the Four Evangelists' accounts of the penitent and impenitent thieves. Vladimir concludes that since only Luke says that i of the ii was saved, "and then the 2 of them must have been damned [...] why believe him rather than the others?"^[27]

In popular civilisation [edit]

The thief features in Christian pop music, as in Christian rock band Third Day'southward 1995 song "Thief", and the name of the Christian stone band Dizmas. The thief also is the narrator in Sydney Carter's controversial song "Friday Morning time".^[28]

Portrayed by Stelio Savante in the award-winning Good Fri movie Once We Were Slaves directed by Dallas Jenkins^[29]

St. Dismas is central to the early plot of the video game Uncharted four: A Thief'southward Cease in which treasure hunter Nathan Drake uses a St. Dismas statue to aid in his search for pirate treasure.

Dismas is the name of one of 2 starting characters in the video game Darkest Dungeon. He is also referred to as a rogue, thief, and highwayman in the in-game descriptions. A comic showing his backstory, as well as in-game item descriptions, implies that he is attempting to redeem himself later killing an innocent woman and her child. A special achievement is granted if both starting characters achieve the game'southward final challenge, fittingly titled "On the old route, we institute redemption."

In the 1967 romantic one-act caper moving-picture show Fitzwilly, butler mastermind Claude Fitzwilliam (Dick Van Dyke) and his larcenous staff operate St. Dismas Thrift Shoppe in Philadelphia, a fictional charity where they send and store their stolen loot.

St. Dismas is prominently mentioned throughout the 1946 film The Hoodlum Saint starring William Powell, Esther Williams and Angela Lansbury.

Run into as well [edit]

• Impenitent thief – Gestas, the other thief crucified alongside Jesus
• Life of Jesus in the New Testament
• Passion (Christianity)
• List of names for the biblical nameless
• Saint Dismas, patron saint annal
• San Dimas – A city named afterwards the Penitent Thief

References [edit]

1. ^ "Saint Dismas – Saint Dismas".
2. ^ Holweck, Frederick George (1907). "Feast of the Declaration of the Blessed Virgin Mary". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. i. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
3. ^ ^{a b} Lawrence Cunningham, A brief history of saints (2005), page 32.
4. ^ ^{a b} Gabra, Gawdat (2009). The A to Z of the Coptic Church. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Printing. p. 120. ISBN9780810870574.
5. ^ ^{a b} Ehrman, Bart; Plese, Zlatko (2011). The Apocryphal Gospels: Texts and Translations . New York: Oxford University Press. p. 582. ISBN9780199732104. a homo named demas.
6. ^ Metzger, Bruce Chiliad.; Ehrman, Bart D. (2005). The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Abuse, and Restoration (fourth ed.). Oxford: Oxford Academy Press. p. 270. ISBN978-019-516667-5.
7. ^ "Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume Eight/Apocrypha of the New Attestation/The Arabic Gospel of the Infancy of the Saviour". Wikisource. 19 April 2009. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
8. ^ Renate Gerstenlauer, The Rakh Icon: Discovery of its True Identity, Legat Verlag, 2009 (ISBN 978-3932942358). Cited at "The Repentant Thief Who?". Icons and their interpretation. 17 December 2011. Retrieved 26 Apr 2014.
9. ^ Matthew 27:38; Mark 15:27–28,32; Luke 23:33; John 19:xviii
10. ^ Isaiah 53:12
11. ^ Matthew 27:44; Mark 15:32
12. ^ 23:39–43
13. ^ Dods, Marcus, ed. (1873). "The Harmony of the Evangelists". The Works of Aurelius Augustine, Vol. 8. Translated past Salmond, S. D. Due south. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark. p. 430–i.
14. ^ Ferrar, F. Westward. (1891). The Gospel According to St. Luke. The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges. London: C. J. Dirt and Sons. p. 351.
15. ^ SBL Greek New Attestation. Cited according to https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=luke+23%3A43&version=SBLGNT
16. ^ Metzger, Bruce M. (2006). A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament. Hendrickson Publishers Marketing, LLC. ISBN978-1-59856-164-7.
17. ^ ^{a b c} The Life of The Practiced Thief, Msgr. Gaume, Loreto Publications, 1868 2003.
18. ^ ^{a b c} Cosmic Family News, April 2006.
19. ^ ^{a b c} Christian Social club, Apr 2007.
20. ^ Stanley E. Porter, Anthony R. Cross Dimensions of baptism: biblical and theological studies 2002 Page 264 "It is interesting to notice, in this connexion, that in his Retractions, Augustine wondered whether the thief might not in fact have been baptized at some before point (2.18)."
21. ^ Luke 23:32-33.
22. ^ The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, from the Visions of Ven. Anne Catherine Emmerich, TAN Books, 1970.(No.2229)/(No.0107).
23. ^ Clark, John (2015-04-03). "Canonized from the Cross: How St Dismas Shows it's Never Besides Belatedly..." Seton Mag . Retrieved 2020-03-01 .
24. ^ "Mutual Prayers – Before and after Holy Communion". oca.org.
25. ^ The text of the hymn (translated into English): "The Wise Thief didst Thou make worthy of Paradise in a single moment, O Lord. By the forest of thy Cantankerous illumine me as well, and relieve me"
26. ^ I of the most notable versions of the hymn is Pavel Chesnokov'southward Razboinika blagorazumnago (The Wise Thief)
27. ^ Beckett, Samuel. The Complete Dramatic Works. Faber & Faber. p. xv.
28. ^ Sydney Carter, obituary Daily Telegraph, March 16, 2004
29. ^ "Stelio Savante Receives Award of Merit for In one case WE WERE SLAVES".

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