The blog of a Middle Anglican
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The death of Jerome brings us to the year 420. The Roman Empire is on the point of collapse, the Dark Ages are about to descend upon Western Europe, and extant records about the lives of saints, or anything else, start to become thin on the ground. Nevertheless, one character of whom a little is [...]
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Most famous for his translation of the Bible into Latin, Jerome was born in Stridon, Dalmatia in the year 341. Although a scholar of great learning, Jerome could also be sarcastic and scornful towards other people. Consequently he had no difficulty acquiring enemies. Sometime in the early 360′s Jerome made a journey to Rome, where [...]
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Between them the lives of Paul, Polycarp and Irenaeus, which were considered in previous posts, cover the period 30-200AD. Around 200AD, Cyprianus Thascius Cecilius was born in Carthage, North Africa. Up until his conversion ca 245 Cyprian held a position as a teacher of rhetoric, he was well known as a writer, and also for [...]
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After Paul and Polycarp, the next saint I want to write a post on is Polycarp’s pupil, Irenaeus. Irenaeus is probably best known for his opposition to Gnosticism, and also for being the author of the earliest surviving list of canonical New Testament books (circa 180AD). It can be surprising to realise the extent to [...]
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Polycarp’s life is traditionally represented as having been lived between 65-155AD. Probably it is a not inaccurate, but the exact dates are not known. One of Polycarp’s chief claims to fame is that he knew the Apostle John, and perhaps also some of the other apostles. There are two extant epistles which help to throw [...]
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A project I thought I might try on this blog is a “history of the Church,” consisting of overlapping lives of the saints, starting in the first century and coming right up to the present day. I can easily imagine that such a project will be easier to pull off for some periods of church [...]
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