See also:ARSENIUS (c. 354-450)
, an anchorite, said to have been See also:born of a See also:noble See also:Roman See also:family, who achieved a high reputation for his knowledge of See also:Greek and Roman literature
.
He was appointed by See also:Theodosius the See also:Great, See also:tutor of the See also:young princes See also:Arcadius and See also:Honorius, but at the See also:age of See also:forty he retired to See also:Egypt, where for forty years he lived in monastic seclusion at Scetis in the Thebais, under the spiritual guidance of St See also:John the See also:Dwarf
.
He is said to have gained the admiration of his See also:fellows by the extreme rigour of his See also:asceticism
.
The See also:remainder of his See also:life he spent at See also:Canopus, and Troe near See also:Memphis, where he died at the age of ninety-five
.
Of his writings two collections of admonitory See also:maxims are extant: the first, AtbavKaXia Kai aapaiveotr, containing instructions for monks, is published with a Latin version by Fr
.
Combefis in Auctanium biblioth. patr. novissim
.
(See also:Paris, 1672), pp
.
301 f.; the second is a collection of forty-four See also:wise sayings put together by his See also:friends under the See also:title of 'A ro4 O yµama (see Cotelerius, Eccl. graec. monum., 1677, i. pp
.
353-372)
.
In the Roman See also:Catholic See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church his festival is on the 19th of See also:July, in the Orthodox Eastern Church on the 8th of May
.
His See also:biography by See also:Simeon Metaphrastes is largely fiction
.
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