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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Greek patriarch of Alexandria and leading defender of Christian orthodoxy against Arianism.
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- noun (Roman Catholic Church) Greek patriarch of Alexandria who championed Christian orthodoxy against Arianism; a church father, saint, and Doctor of the Church (293-373)
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In Sanskrit, Kalachakra means “Wheel of Time”; some call it the Subterranean World, the same term Athanasius Kircher used to describe his underground world of caves.
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In Sanskrit, Kalachakra means “Wheel of Time”; some call it the Subterranean World, the same term Athanasius Kircher used to describe his underground world of caves.
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A link to the Boston Congregation of St. Athanasius is at the left.
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The name Athanasius was given him in honour of the saint on whose feast he was born.
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St. Athanasius is not the author of the creed which is so frequently read in our churches.
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May I presume to add, that the portrait of Athanasius is one of the passages of my history (vol.ii. p. 332, &c.) with which I am the least dissatisfied?
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(See the original epistle in Athanasius, tom.ii. p. 33.)
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Ethiopia, * to exclude Athanasius from the most remote and sequestered regions of the earth.
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As a punishment for the imaginary offence, he again banished Athanasius from the city; and he was pleased to suppose, that this act of justice would be highly agreeable to his pious subjects.
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He reckons ninety-seven bishops.] 111 This magistrate, so odious to Athanasius, is praised by Gregory Nazianzen, tom. i.
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