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Also Known As Saint Serapion
Flourished 326 - 375
Subjects Of Study Eucharist • Second Coming • Trinity
Macarius the Egyptian
Egyptian monk
St. Basil, detail of a mosaic, 12th century; in the Palatine Chapel, Palermo, Sicily, Italy.
St. Basil the Great
bishop of Caesarea
“Saint Anthony”
St. Anthony of Egypt
Egyptian monk
Shenute
Egyptian religious reformer
St. Gregory the Great
pope
Domenico Ghirlandaio: St. Jerome in His Study
St. Jerome
Christian scholar
St. Gregory of Nazianzus
St. Gregory of Nazianzus
Byzantine theologian
St. Gregory of Nyssa
Saint Gregory of Nyssa
Byzantine philosopher and theologian
Saint Nilus of Ancyra
Greek abbot
Euthymius Of Tŭrnovo
Orthodox patriarch
Palladius
Galatian monk, bishop, and chronicler
Pelagius
Christian theologian
St. Mesrop Mashtots
St. Mesrop Mashtots
Armenian theologian and linguist
Philotheus Kokkinos
patriarch of Constantinople
St. John Cassian
monk
Saint Hilary of Poitiers
bishop of Poitiers
Origen
Christian theologian
St. Athanasius
St. Athanasius
Egyptian theologian
St. Cyril of Alexandria
Christian theologian
St. Pachomius
St. Pachomius
Egyptian monk

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