Chrysostom bore his misfortunes with fortitude, and being still possessed of abundant wealth, he carried on very extensive operations for the conversion of the people about his place of banishment. His enemies eoon determined to remove him to a more desolate tract on the Euxine, whither he was compelled to travel on foot, beneath a burning sun, which, in addition to many deprivations, produced a violent fever. On arriving at Comana, he was carried into an oratory of St. Basil, where, having put on a white surplice, he crossed him self and expired, September 14, 407, being about sixty yenta of age. Thirty-five yearn after his death and burial at Comana, his remains were brought with great pomp and veneration to Constantinople by Theodosius II. It is said they were afterwards removed to Rome. The Greek Church celebrates his feast on the 13th of November ; the Roman on the 27th of January.
The works of St. Chrysostom are very numerous. They consist of commentaries, 700 homilies, orations, doctrinal treatises, and 242 epistles. The style is uniformly diffuse and overloaded with metaphors and similes. The chief value of Chrysostom's works consists in the illustration which they furnish of the manners of the 4th and 5th centuries. They contain a great number of incidental but very minute description's that indicate the moral and social state of that period. The circus, theatres, spectacles, baths, houses, domestic economy, banquets, dresses, fashions, pictures, processions, chariots, horses, dancing, juggling, tight-rope dancing, funerals, in short every thing has a place in the picture of licentious luxury which it is the object of Chrysostom to denounce. Montfaucon has made a curious
collection of these matters from his great editiou of the works of Chrysostom, 13 vols. folio (editio optima). de l'Acad. des Thscrip.; vol ziii., p. 474, and vol. xx., p. 197 ; also Jortin, 'Eccles. Hint.,' voL iv. p. 169, et aeq.) The Golden Book' of St. John Chrysos tom concerning the education of children, 12mo, published in 1659, is translated from a manuscript found in the cardinal's library at Paris, 1656. The precepts are very curious. The boy is to see no female except his mother; to hear, see, smell, taste, touch, nothing that gives pleasure ; to fast twice a week, to read the Story of Joseph' frequently, and to know nothing about hell till he is 15 years old. Chrysostom is described by his biographers as being short in stature, with a large bald head, a spacious and deeply-wrinkled forehead, short and scanty beard, hollow cheeks and sunken eyes, having a look of extreme mortification, but in his movements remarkably brisk, energetic, and smart. He was strongly attached to the writings of St. PauL His surname Chrysostom was not applied until some time after his death. The biographers of Chrysostom are very numerous : Socrates, lib. vi. ; Sozomen, lib. viii. ; Theodoret, lib. v.; Vie de St. Jean C.,' by Hermaut, 8vo, I665; Menard; Erasmus; Du Pin ; Tille mont; Palladius ; Photius ; Ribadeneira; 'Gibbon, c. 32; Morcri's 'Did.' contains a further list; Usher, qiisteria Dogmatics,' p. 33. There is a recent life of Chrysostom by Neauder.