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Life of St Porphyry, Bishop of Gaza

Mark the Deacon, tr. Hill, 1913

Chapter 31

And all they that were there were astonied, and cried out: ‘Great is the God of the Christians; great is the priest Porphyry.’ And on the next day the parents of the woman and her husband and all her family and kinsfolk went unto the blessed Porphyry and fell at his feet, asking to be sealed in Christ. And the blessed man having sealed them and made them catechumens sent them away in peace, exhorting them to make attendance in holy church1; and after a little time, when he had instructed them, he baptized them, together with the woman and the child.2 And they called his name Porphyry. And they that were enlightened3 through the occasion of this woman were in number sixty and four.

Notes

  1. make attendance in holy church. σχολάζειν, i.e. to go constantly to receive instruction previous to baptism.
  2. and the child. Reading τῷ βρέφει with H, instead of τὸ βρέφος.
  3. enlightened. Possibly here used only in the general sense of ‘converted’, but often, as in cc. 47, 74, for ‘baptized’.

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