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Ακολουθια πληρης, βιος και μαρτυριον του αγιου ενδοξου ιερομαρτυρος Φωκα επισκοπου Σινωπης του θαυματουργου ...
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Year: 1898 Publisher: En Athēnais: [éditeur inconnu],

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Martyrdom of St Phokas of Sinope : the Syriac version
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ISSN: 19356846 ISBN: 9781463201890 1463201893 Year: 2013 Volume: 31 Publisher: Piscataway (N.J.) : Gorgias press,

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The fame of the martyr St. Phokas, first bishop of Sinope (on the Black Sea) and patron of seafarers, had spread to many parts of the Christian world by the fifth and sixth centuries. Although the Acts of his martyrdom under Trajan were composed in Greek, the earliest witness to them is the Syriac translation which is edited and translated here from two early manuscripts.

"Let us die that we may live" : Greek homilies on Christian martyrs from Asia Minor, Palestine, and Syria (c. AD 350-AD 450)
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ISBN: 0415240417 0415240425 1134551436 0203413458 9780203413458 1280073144 9780203413456 9780415240413 9780415240420 9781134551439 9781280073144 9781134551385 9781134551422 1134551428 Year: 2003 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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This book presents fresh, lively translations of fourteen such homilies, the majority for the first time in English. The homilies were delivered in some of the main cities of the Greek East of the later Roman Empire, by well-known figures such as Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa and John Chrysostom, as well as the equally gifted preachers Asterius of Amasea and Hesychius of Jerusalem.'Let us die that we may live' offers an approachable, surprising, and not always reverent insight into the life of the Early Church. It reveals the full importance of the martyr homily in terms of

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