Saint Sarapion

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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

St. Anthony of Egypt

Egyptian monk

Shenute

Egyptian religious reformer

St. Gregory the Great

pope

St. Jerome

Christian scholar

St. Gregory of Nazianzus

Byzantine theologian

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

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

Egyptian theologian

St. Cyril of Alexandria

Christian theologian

St. Pachomius

Egyptian monk

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