Blessing

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BLESSING The blessing is a liturgical gesture by which the priest or the bishop makes the sign of the cross over the oblation, the water, or icon. The blessing may also mean a special prayer for the blessing of food or a house. The blessing is inspired by the gesture of Christ in Mark 10:16. …

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Saint Cyril I Or Cyril Of Alexandria

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SAINT CYRIL I or Cyril of Alexandria The twenty-fourth patriarch of the See of Saint Mark (412-444), who is reckoned one of the greatest prelates of Christian antiquity (feast day: 3 Abib). Cyril spent his early years at Dayr Anba Maqar in the Nitrian Valley, which had become noted as a center of theological studies. …

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Anaphora Of Saint Gregory

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ANAPHORA OF SAINT GREGORY One of the three anaphoras retained by the Coptic church in its service books. In the manuscript tradition, followed by modern printed editions, the anaphora in the strict sense (from the beginning of the eucharistic prayer to the doxology before the fraction and Lord’s Prayer) is supplemented by certain prayers preceding …

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Patrologia Orientalis

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PATROLOGIA ORIENTALIS Beginning in 1886, Rene Graffin (1858-1941), professor at the Institut catholique in Paris, conceived the idea of adjoining to the Patrologia Latina and the Patrologia Graeca of J. P. Migne a collection comprising the texts of the Eastern church fathers, which were to be printed in their original languages with a translation on …

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Hippolytus (C. 170-C. 236)

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HIPPOLYTUS (c. 170-c. 236) A presbyter and probably a schismatic bishop of Rome, who wrote numerous works in Greek on theological and ecclesiastical subjects. Some of their titles are listed on the basis of an early statue of him, found in Rome in 1551, now in the Vatican Library. Two of the most important are …

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Patrologia Orientalis

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