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- Name: Plotinus
- Birth: 204, Lycopolis, Egypt
- Death: 270, Campania, Italy
- Language: Greek
- Who he was: Greek-speaking Egyptian-born mystic philosopher who taught "three principles": the One, the Intellect, and the Soul. Best known for his Enneads.
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| Pope Gregory dictates Gregorian chant to a scribe |
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- Name: Gregory the Great
- Known as: Saint Gregory the Great, Pope Gregory I
- Birth: Unknown Date, c. 540, Rome, Italy
- Death: March 12, 604, Rome, Italy
- Language: Latin
- Who he was: Roman Church Father and Pope; enacted liturgical reforms, and is credited with "Gregorian" chant
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- Name: Isidore of Seville
- Birth: Unknown Date, 560, Cartagena, Spain
- Death: April 4, 636, Seville, Spain
- Languages: Vulgar Latin (?), Latin, Greek, Hebrew
- Who he was: Hispano-Roman Archbishop and the "last of the Church Fathers"; Etymologiae (The Etymologies); De fide catholica contra Iudaeos (On the Catholic faith against the Jews); Historia de regibus Gothorum, Vandalorum et Suevorum (History of the Kings of the Goths, Vandals and Suevi)
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| by Fra Angelico |
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- Name: Benedict of Nursia
- Birth: c. 480, Norcia (Umbria, Italy)
- Death: March 21, 543, Monte Cassino, Italy
- Language: Latin
- Who he was: Italian saint and religious founder known for The Rule of St. Benedict
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- Name: Cyril of Alexandria
- Birth: Unknown Date, 378, Alexandria, Egypt
- Death: June 27, 444, Alexandria, Egypt
- Language: Greek
- Who he was: Greek Patriarch (of Alexandria) and Church Father known for Commentaries on the Old Testament, and On St. John's Gospel; Dialogues on the Trinity; numerous Christological works
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| Boethius teaching disciples |
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- Name: Boethius
- Birth: 480, Rome, Kingdom of Odoacer
- Death: 524, Pavia, Ostrogothic Kingdom
- Language: Latin
- Who he was: Roman philosopher who wrote The Consolation of Philosophy, which addresses the questions, "How can evil exist in a world governed by God?" "How can happiness be attained even in trials?" "What is happiness?"
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| Fresco of the Desert Fathers in a monastery near their former dwellings |
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- Name: Sayings of the Desert Fathers
- Known as: Apophthegmata Patrum
- Date: late 4th century CE
- Place: Egypt
- Language: Greek (originally Coptic)
- What it is: Middle Eastern collection of stories about the first Christian monks of Egypt
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| The death of Hypatia |
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- Name: Hypatia
- Dates: c. 350 or 70-415
- Place: Alexandria
- Language: Greek
- Who she was: female Greek scholar in Alexandria, Roman-era Egypt; said to have been murdered by a Christian mob
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| by Piero di Cosimo |
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- Name: Anthony the Great
- Also known as: Anthony of Egypt
- Birth: Unknown Date, 251, Heracleopolis Magna, Egypt
- Death: January 17, 356, Egypt
- Language: Coptic
- Who he was: Coptic-speaking Egyptian hermit and Church Father known for his Letters
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- Name: Eusebius of Caesarea
- Also known as: Eusebius Pamphili
- Birth: 260/265, Palestine
- Death: 339/340, Caesarea Maritima, Caesarea, Israel
- Language: Greek
- Who he was: Roman Christian historian known for The Ecclesiastical History
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- Name: Gregory of Nazianzus
- Birth: Unknown Date, 329, Nazianzus, Turkey
- Death: January 25, 390, Nazianzus, Turkey
- Language: Greek
- Who he was: Greek Archbishop (of Constantinople) and Church Father; friend of the brothers Gregory of Nyssa and Basil the Great; together the three are called the "Cappadocian Fathers"; theological works and poems
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- Name: Gregory of Nyssa
- Birth: 335, Niksar, Turkey
- Death: 394, Nyssa, Turkey
- Language: Greek
- Who he was: Greek-speaking Cappadocian theologian and Church Father; younger brother of Basil the Great, and friend of Gregory of Nazianzus; together the three are called the "Cappadocian Fathers"; sermons, homilies, letters; Life of Moses
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- Name: Basil the Great, Church Father (329/330-379)
- Birth: Unknown Date, 330, Kayseri, Turkey
- Death: January 1, 379, Kayseri, Turkey
- Language: Greek
- Who he was: Greek Bishop (of Caesarea) and Church Father; elder brother of Gregory of Nyssa, and friend of Gregory of Nazianzus; together the three are called the "Cappadocian Fathers"; On the Holy Spirit; Refutation of the Apology of the Impious Eunomius
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- Name: John Chrysostom
- Birth: Unknown Date, 347, Antioch, Turkey
- Death: September 14, 407, Comana Pontica, Turkey
- Language: Greek
- Who he was: Greco-Syrian Christian orator and Church Father; Archbishop of Constantinople; homilies, especially the Paschal Homily
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| Hilary's ordination |
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- Name: Hilary of Poitiers
- Birth: c. 310, Poitiers, France
- Death: c. 367, Poitiers, France
- Language: Latin
- Who he was: Romano-French Bishop (of Poitiers) and Church Father; De Synodis (On the Councils); De Trinitate (On the Trinity); Homilies on Psalms
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| A text from Nag Hammadi |
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- Name: Nag Hammadi Texts
- Date: 3rd-4th centuries CE
- Place: Egypt
- Language: Coptic
- What they are: Middle Eastern collection of Gnostic texts (includes the Gospel of Thomas)
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- Name: Origen
- Also known as: Origen Adamantius
- Birth: c. 184, Alexandria, Egypt
- Death: c. 254, Tyre, Lebanon
- Language: Greek
- Who he was: Greek-speaking Christian ascetic theologian and Church Father born in Roman-era Alexandria; Biblical Commentaries; On First Principles; Against Celsus
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- Name: Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus
- Known as: Tertullian
- Dates: 160-220
- Place: Carthage
- Language: Latin
- Who he was: Roman theologian, apologist, and Church Father born in Carthage; Apologeticum; Adversus Valentinianos (Against the Valentinians); De Carne Christi (On the Flesh of Christ)
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- Name: Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus
- Known as: Galen
- Birth: 130, Pergamon, Turkey
- Death: 200? 216?, Rome, Italy
- Language: Greek
- Who he was: Greek physician; wrote voluminously on medical discoveries during the Roman era
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- Name: Ireneaus
- Birth: 130, Smyrna, Turkey
- Death: 202, Lugdunum (modern-day Lyons, France)
- Language: Greek
- Who he was: Greek Bishop and Church Father in Roman Gaul; wrote Against Heresies
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