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Title: Saint Athanasius
The Father of Orthodoxy

Author: F.A. [Frances Alice] Forbes

Release Date: January 5, 2009 [EBook #27707]

Language: English

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SAINT ATHANASIUS
c. 297-373

THE FATHER OF ORTHODOXY

By F.A. [Francis Alice] Forbes

"Jesus said to them: Amen, Amen I say to you, before Abraham was
made, I am."
--John 8:58

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. . . . And the
Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us."
--John 1:14

Nihil Obstat: J.N. Strassmaier, S.J.
Censor Deputatus

Imprimatur: Edmund Canon Surmont
Vicar General
Westminster
August 5, 1919

Originally published in 1919 by R. & T. Washbourne, Ltd., London, as
part of the series _Standard-bearers of the Faith: A Series of Lives
of the Saints for Young and Old_.

"Born of the Father before all ages, God of God, Light of Light,
true God of true God, begotten not made, consubstantial with the
Father . . . "
--From the Nicene Creed

CONTENTS

1. A Foreshadowing

2. Arius the Heresiarch

3. The Great Council

4. The Calm Before the Storm

5. False Witnesses

6. A Royal-Hearted Exile

7. The Day of Rejoicing

8. The Invisible Patriarch

9. A Short-Lived Peace

10. The Last Exile

11. The Truce of God

SAINT ATHANASIUS

"I and the Father are one."
--Words of Our Lord (John 10:30)

Chapter 1
A FORESHADOWING

THE Patriarch of Alexandria, Egypt was expecting company. He stood at
the window of his palace looking down the long road, that at the first
sign of his guests' arrival he might go forth and welcome them. Before
him, like a white pearl in the blue waters of the Mediterranean, lay
the city of Alexandria--"the beautiful," as men loved to call it.
Across the harbor the marble tower of the great lighthouse soared up
into the clear Eastern sky, white as the white cliffs