THE STORY OF THE COPTS - THE TRUE STORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN EGYPT

About the year 228 A.D. Abba Demetrius, discerning how brilliant Origen had become, sent him on an evangelistic mission to Acha ...

B. ORIGEN The enigma of ecclesiastical history. A precocious child. His father's martyrdom. His deanship and valour. Expansion ...

Providence. Of all the early Church fathers, he alone was born of Christian parents, and had the signal grace of being the son o ...

prison, full of comfort and cheer, ending with these most touching and admirable words: "Take heed, my beloved father, and chang ...

As soon as the persecutions ceased, Origen hastened to reorganise the work at the School. Its students were to study grammar, d ...

countless people to come and study under his guidance, and to live according to his maxim and his example. But for all his know ...

Severu, invited him to Antioch, and overwhelmed him with honours.^14 Emperor Philip, the Arab, and his wife, Severa, reckoned it ...

Demetrius to Alexandria, to resume his work of education. Origen hastened to obey. Once back in Alexandria, he not only recommen ...

opposed both Jews and Gnostics, as the two parties interpreted the Scriptures in a literal sense. And he invited them all to pas ...

and had passed through Palestine on his way back. Both Alexander Bishop of Jerusalem, and Theostite, Bishop of Caesarea, conside ...

at Jerusalem, he had chosen for his subject: "But unto the wicked God saith what hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that ...

and one more stroke would have mercifully put an end to their pains, they were to be left for another day or two. The respite wo ...

strengthening weakened souls and winning new ones to the Faith. But the torments of a prolonged martyrdom and the activities of ...

Evagrius those doctrines reached Cassian, who, in turn, passed them on to the monks of the Occident, and in that same Occident, ...

IV. NOTES The Epact Abba Demetrius computed that every nineteen solar years equalled nineteen lunar years plus two hundred and n ...

In the eleventh year there would be 31 extra days. Therefore the eleventh lunar year would be a leap year with one day left over ...

NOTES A town of great importance up to the VIIIth century, now reduced to the status of a village. It is eleven kilometres sout ...

Eusebius B VI ss. 3, 21, 23, 27, 30, 32-33; Jerome "Famous Men” section VI. Euscbius B VI s 36; Jerome op. cit. section VI. Gra ...

Archimandrite V. Guettee: "Histoire de l'Eglise" vol. II, pp. 236-7. Danielou, op. cit., pp. 7-8. ...

V. A SERENE SPIRIT Heraclas: Philosopher and Orator. Spread of Christianity. Patriarchal letter to Origen. Another flare-up of ...