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Anatolius, Bishop of Laodicea in Syria, was one of the foremost scholars of his day in the physical sciences and in Aristotelean philosophy. Laodicea is a Hellenistic name that can apply to at least six cities named for a Seleucid queen of the 3rd century BCE. They include: Laodicea ad Mare modern Latakia, Syria Laodicea ad Lycum near modern Denizli, Turkey was the metropolis of Phrygia Pacatiana. ...
There are fragments of ten books on arithmetic written by him, and also a treatise on time of the Paschal celebration.
A very curious story is told by Eusebius of the way in which Anatolius broke up a rebellion in a part of Alexandria known as time Bruchium. It was held by the forces of Zenobia, and being strictly beleaguered by the Romans was in a state of starvation. The saint, who was living in the Bruchium at the time, made arrangements with the besiegers to receive all the women and children, as well as the old and infirm, continuing at the same time to let as many as wished profit by the means of escaping. It broke up the defence and the rebels surrendered. It was a patriotic action on the part of the saint, as well as one of great benevolence, in saving so many innocent victims from death. Zenobia coin reporting her title, Augusta. ...
In going to Laodicea he was seized by the people and made bishop. Whether his friend Eusebius had died, or whether they both occupied the see together, is a matter of much discussion. The question is treated at length in the Bollandists. The Bollandists are an association of Jesuit scholars publishing the Acta Sanctorum (the Lives of the Saints). ...
His feast, like that of his namesake Patriarch Anatolius of Constantinople, is kept on 3 July. Anatolius was Patriarch of Constantinople (449 - 458). ...
July 3 is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 181 days remaining. ...
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The Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (28 January 1834 – 2 January 1924) was an English Victorian hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. ...
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