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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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days after-ward. The anniversary of this event is still celebrated as a fete by the Catho-lic Church. He won the love and admiration of all by his mildness and gen-tleness, as well as by his unyielding severity toward wickedness in every form.His Christian bravery was shown by his driving the Emperor Theodosius fromthe door of the church, because of his cruel massacre of the Thessalonians.He excommunicated the Emperor and compelled him to do severe penance foreight months before restoring him to the church. Ambrose died in 397. The Te Deum Laudamus and several other works have been attributed to him.He is the patron saint of Milan, and the Ambrosian Library received its namein his honor. Athanasius was born in Alexandria about the year 296. Although only adeacon and but a mere youth when appointed to the first general council of thechurch at Nice, he attracted great attention by his learning and eloquence. Hewas still young when elected Patriarch of Alexandria. He was jDersecuted by i
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ZENOBIA IN THE TRIUMPH OF AURELIAN Rome—Early Christian Writers 439 the Arians and driven out of Alexandria, then restored only to be driven outagain. Once he had to remain hidden for four months in the tomb of his father,but was finally restored to his bishopric, which he held until his death in 373.He was a leading ecclesiastic of the church, able, judicious, wise, perfectlyfearless, and though twenty years of his life were spent in exile, his exertionswere crowned with complete success. His writings are clear and powerful, andhe was the great champion of Trinitarianism, his polemical works relatingchiefly to the incarnation of the Saviour and the divinity of the Holy Spirit. Gregory Nazianzen (called also the Theologian, because of his erudition insacred literature) was born about 329 in Cappadocia, not far from Caesarea,His father, also of the same name, became a Christian, through the instrumen-tality of his wife, and was raised to the dignity of Bishop of Nazianzus. Thusthe so

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