The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, MarchButler, Alban
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The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March
Butler, Alban
Christian patron saints -- Biography; Christian saints -- Biography
Footnotes:
1. Papebroch supposes St. John Calybite to have made a long voyage at
sea; but this circumstance seems to have no other foundation than
the mistake of those who place his birth at Rome, forgetting that
Constantinople was then called New Rome. No mention is made of any
long voyage in his genuine Greek acts, nor in the interpolated
Latin. He sailed only threescore furlongs from Constantinople to the
place called [Greek: Gomon], and from the peaceful abode of the
Acaemetes' monk, ([Greek: Eirenaion], or dwelling of peace,) opposite
to Sosthenium on the Thrancian shore, where the monastery of the
Acaemetes stood.
2. From [Greek: kalube], a cottage, a hut.
3. Cedr. ad an. 461.
4. Zonaras, p. 41.
5. Du Cange, Constantinop. Christiana, l. 4, c. 6, n. 51.
ST. ISIDORE, PRIEST AND HOSPITALLER,
OF ALEXANDRIA.[1]
HE was taken from his cell where he had passed many years in the
deserts, ordained Priest, and placed in the dignity of hospitaller, by
St. Athanasius. He lived in that great city a perfect model of meekness,
patience, mortification, and prayer. He frequently burst into tears at
table, saying: "I who am a rational creature, and made to enjoy God, eat
the food of brutes, instead of feeding on the bread of angels."
Palladius, afterwards bishop of Helenopolis, on going to Egypt to
embrace an ascetic life, addressed himself first to our saint for
advice: the skilful director bade him go and exercise himself for some
time in mortification and self-denial, and then return for further
instructions. St. Isidore suffered many persecutions, first from Lucius
the Arian intruder, and afterwards from Theophilus, who unjustly accused
him of Origenism.[2] He publicly condemned that heresy at {157}
Constantinople, where he died in 403, under the protection of St.
Chrysostom. See Palladius in Lausiac, c. 1 and 2. Socrates, l. 6, c. 9.
Sozomen, c. 3 and 12. St. Jerom, Ep. 61, c. 15, ad Princip. Theodoret.
l. 4, c. 21. Pallad. de Vita S. Chrys. Bulteau, Hist. Mon. d'Orient. l.
1, c. 15
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