Test 2 Chth

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Cassiodorus

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• Cyril and Methodius

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* Translated scripture and church documents into their native language

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Ephraim Syrus

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(c. 306-73): one of the most revered of Syrian saints, a theologian, scholar, poet, hymnode and servant of the ill, who founded a hospital in Edessa. (Hart, 104)

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Frumentius of Axum

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Sometime in the early decades of the fourth century AD, two Christian merchants from Tyre named Frumentius and Aedesius—brothers who had been raised in Alexandria—took passage aboard a trading vessel bound for India, but never reached their destination. They were sold into the service of the royal court in Aksum. This is how Ethiopia became a Christian empire. Frumentius was assigned as the bishop of Ethiopia and sent back to oversee the evangelization of the Aksumite empire. (Hart, 64)

First bishop of Axum (Aksum)

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Gregory Bar-Hebraeus

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(1226-86) he is sometimes called “the encyclopedia of the thirteenth century.” He was the son of a Jewish physician from Melitene who converted to Christianity

-was a bishop of the Syriac Orthodox Church in the 13th century. He is noted for his works addressing philosophy, poetry, language, history, and theology, he has been called "one of the most learned and versatile men from the Syriac Orthodox Church

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Gregory the Great

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Pope from 590-604

Throughout the Middle Ages he was known as “the Father of Christian Worship” because of his exceptional efforts in revising the Roman worship of his day.[3] His contributions to the development of the Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, still in use in the Eastern Orthodox Church, were so significant that he is generally recognized as its de facto author.

He was the first of the popes to come from a monastic background

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• John Cassian

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(360-435): no single figure was more important in bringing Egyptian asceticism to the Latin Christian world than John Cassian, or John the Eremite, the founder of the Abbey of St Victor in Marseilles.

He was ordained to be a deacon in Constantinople in 399 by the patriarch of the city, St. John Chrysostom (Golden Mouth). John Chrysostom was deposed from his see on spurious charges and banished to Armenia in 403. Cassian was ordained to the priesthood in 405 in Rome. In 415 he founded not only his famous monastery in Marseilles, but a convent as well, and spent the remainder of his life as an abbott

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John of Damascus

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(c. 675-749), the patristic period is usually said to have ended in the West with St Isidore of Seville and in the East with St John of Damascus. John, though a far more innovative and rigorous philosopher, is celebrated chiefly for his systematization of all previous patristic thought in On the Orthodox Faith, the first great work of Christian scholasticism.

Defended the use of icons when the church started to destroy them and call them evil. Went to the Pope to convince of the validity of veneration of icons.

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• Martin of Tours

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(316-97) the greatest Gallic Christian figure of the first century of Roman Christianity, the patron saint of France: a tireless evangelist and one of the earliest apostles of monasticism in the West. He chose as a boy of ten to abandon the paganism of his parents and seek baptism. As a young man, he was conscripted into the army but refused to fight and was briefly imprisoned. Martin travelled to the Balkans as a missionary. In 360, after a sojourn in Italy, he returned home and founded the first monastic community in Gaul, in Liguge. In 371, he was appointed bishop of Tours, near his new see he founded the great monastery of Marmoutie

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• Maximos the Confessor

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(580-662) almost single-handedly defeated monothelitism. Because of his theological defense of dyothelitism (belief in two wills of Christ), and because of his heroic martyrdom, the sixth ecumenical council condemned monothelitism and required belief in two wills as orthodox doctrine.He may well have possessed the single most impressive philosophical intellect in the history of Christian theology. His metaphysics of creation, his Trinitarian theology, his spiritual teachings, his anthropology—no less than his Christology—are difficult and complex, but always marked by genius.

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• Sorkaktani Beki

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Nestorian princess, the wife of Genghis Khan’s youngest son, became mother of the Great Khan of the Mongols, an emperor of China and an emperor of Persia. (RobertDana, p28)nd maneuvered the family politics so that all four of her sons, Möngke Khan, Hulagu Khan, Ariq Böke, and Kublai Khan, were to inherit the legacy of their grandfather

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• Theodora

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(c. 497-548): the wife of Byzantine emperor Justinian I (483-565). She had been an actress. When Justinian met her, she was a penitent convert to Monophysitism who had forsaken the stage for wool-spinning. In 525, he changed the law and made her his wife. In 527, on becoming Augustus, he conferred upon her the title of Augusta. She succeeded in bringing an end to the imperial persecution of the Monophysites.