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Heraclas (769 words) |
 | Heraclas "gave a great example of philosophical life and askesis (ibid., vi, 33), and it was his reputation for knowledge of philosophy and Greek learning that drew Julius Africanus to visit Alexandria. |
| Heraclas was succeeded in the third year of the Emperor Philip, by St. Dionysius, who had previously been his successor as head of the catechetical school. |
| Heraclas was inserted by Usuard in his martyrology on 14 July, and he has thus come into the Roman Martyrology on that day. |
| Dionysius of Alexandria - Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon (2997 words) |
| At a later period, when he was warned by a priest of the danger he ran in studying the books of heretics, a visionso he informs usassured him that he was capable of proving all things, and that this faculty had in fact been the cause of his conversion. |
| The latter was banished by Demetrius about 231, and Heraclas took his place at the head of the catechetical school. |
| The diocese proper to Alexandria was still very large (though Heraclas is said to have instituted new bishoprics), and the Arsinoite nome formed a part of it. |
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