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	Inscription of Abercius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This epitaph may well have inspired the Life of Abercius such as it has come down to us, since all its details may be explained by the hints contained in the inscription, or else belong to the common foundation of all legends of saints.
		On comparison it was found that the inscription in memory of Alexander corresponded, almost word for word, with the first and last verses of the epitaph of the Bishop of Hieropolis; all the middle part was missing.
		The text of the inscription itself is of the greatest possible importance in connection with the symbolism of the early Church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Inscription_of_Abercius (1180 words)

	Early Christian Inscriptions
		The inscription of Abercius speaks of the fish (Christ) caught by a holy virgin, which serves as food under the species of bread and wine; it speaks, further, of Rome, where Abercius visited the chosen people, the Church par excellence.
		Many inscriptions have the character of public documents; others are in verse, either taken from well-known poets, or at times the work of the person erecting the memorial.
		The present writer found an inscription with the customary Greek term Kyriou (House of the Lord) in the basilica of the Holy Baths, one of the basilicas of the ancient Egyptian town of Menas.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/i/inscriptions,early_christian.html (2418 words)

	Inscription - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Inscriptions are words or letters written, engraved, painted, or otherwise traced on a surface and can appear in contexts both small and monumental.
		Coin texts and monumental carvings on buildings are both included by historians as types of inscriptions.
		The Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum is an example of an attempt by scholars to publish an organized collection of the known inscriptions from a particular language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Inscription (111 words)

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		THE EPITAPH OF ABERCIUS The Epitaph of Abercius, Bishop of Hieropolis in Phrygia, Asia Minor, is the oldest eucharistic monument of stone.
		A thorough study of these inscriptions at the hands of eminent archaeologists disclosed the fact that the inscription of Alexander was merely a copy, with minor differences, of that of Abercius.
		The inscription itself is couched in mystical and symbolical language-the language of early Christians which, according to the prevailing Discipline of the Secret, served to conceal the mysteries of faith from the uninitiated.
	www.ewtn.com /library/SOURCES/EPITAPHS.TXT (3052 words)

	St. Abercius
		Abercius Marcellus was the bishop of Hieropolis, which was in the Roman province of Phrygia Salutaris, Asia Minor (now western Turkey).
		The Epitaph of Abercius, discovered by archeologists about a century ago, has been called "the queen of all ancient Christian inscriptions." It dates from before the year 216 A.D. In this fairly long text, Abercius names himself and recounts the devoted journeys he had made among Christian peoples, including a special journey to Rome.
		In Mesopotamia, too, Abercius found Christians who shared with him the same Eucharist, for the "mighty and pure fish" to which he alludes was Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
	www.stthomasirondequoit.com /SaintsAlive/id707.htm (699 words)

	Inscription of Abercius
		The queen of all ancient Christian inscriptions is the epitaph of Abercius.
		The inscription is written in a mystical and symbolical style, according to the discipline of the secret, to conceal its Christian character from the uninitiated.
		It is the self-written epitaph, in twenty-two verses, of a certain Abercius, a citizen of Hierapolis in Phrygia.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /abercius.html (891 words)

	The inscription of Abercius.
		Abercius is my name, being the disciple of the chaste shepherd who feeds his flocks on mountains and plains, who has great eyes looking everywhere; for he taught me faithful writings.
		The boldfaced parts represent the fragmentary inscription itself, discovered by William Ramsay in 1883 in Phrygia.
		This inscription is of course valuable for studies of the eucharist in the early church.
	www.textexcavation.com /abercius.html (294 words)

	Saint Abercius Marcellus
		In Rome, Abercius was supposedly commanded by Emperor Marcus Aurelius to rid his daughter, Lucilla, of a demon, Following this event, Abercius is recorded as visiting Syria and the Euphrates River.
		It is known that Abercius was the bishop of Heiropolis in the area called Phrygia Salutaris.
		In the original "Inscriptions of Abercius," an epitaph on a stele now in the Vatican, the saintly bishop comments on the dazzling seal of Baptism that unites Christians everywhere.
	www.thesacredheart.com /sts/sabercus.htm (158 words)

	Inscription -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Inscriptions are words or letters (Click link for more info and facts about written) written, (Click link for more info and facts about engraved) engraved, (Click link for more info and facts about painted) painted, or otherwise traced on a surface and can appear in contexts both small and monumental.
		The study of inscriptions is (The study of ancient inscriptions) epigraphy.
		(An inscription on a tombstone or monument in memory of the person buried there) Epitaph on a (A stone that is used to mark a grave) headstone
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/in/inscription.htm (425 words)

	Indian Christianity
		The inscription itself was known long ago, for it is attached to a life of Saint Abercius in the Greek Passionales, and many MSS containing it are found in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, and in the Vatican library.
		This attracted the attention of the late ecclesiastical archaeologist, De Rossi, and he suggested that the tomb of Abercius could not be far off, as the epitaph of Alexander closely imitated the lines of the known epitaph of Abercius.
		Abercius, speaking in his own person, tells us he ordered his tomb, dictated the inscription, was a follower of the shepherd, visited Rome, passed through the cities of Syria, went beyond the Euphrates, saw Nisibis; then continues:—
	www.indianchristianity.com /html/chap4/chapter4f.htm (11389 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Fractio Panis
		Both the inscription of Abercius (q.v.) of the close of the second century and that of Autun a little later, as well as the large number of allusions in early Christian literature, make it clear that our Saviour Jesus Christ was indicated by this symbol (see e.g.
		2-4) Moreover, the Abercius inscription clearly conveys that this "great fish" was to be the permanent food of the soul.
		We may also note that the one female fixture among the guests depicted in the Fractio Panis fresco is veiled which is not the case with the female figures represented in those other banqueting scenes found in the catacombs and usually interpreted as symbolic of the joys of heaven.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06165a.htm (1190 words)

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	EUCHARIST - LoveToKnow Article on EUCHARIST
		Harnack to suppose that in the earliest age water was used equally with wine, and Eusebius the historian, who had means of judging which we have not, saw no difficulty in identifying with the first converts of St Mark the Therapeutae of Philo who took only bread and water in their holy repast.
		Abercius and Irenaeus are the first to speak of wine mixt with water, of a krrna (,cpa,ua) or tern perament urn.
		In the East,, then as now, no one took wine without so mixing it Cyprian insists on the admixture of water, which he says represented the humanity of Jesus, as wine his godhood.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /E/EU/EUCHARIST.htm (10278 words)

	Discipline of the Secret
		Jewish subjects typical of Christian truths were commonly chosen, while the representation of Christ under the name and form of a fish made the allusion to the doctrine of the Holy Eucharist possible and plain.
		There is, for example, the famous Autun inscription (see PECTORIUS): "Take the food, honey-sweet, of the redeemer of the saints, eat and drink holding the Fish in they hands"; words which every Christian would understand at once, but which conveyed nothing to the uninitiated.
		The inscription of Abercius offers another notable instance.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/d/discipline_of_secret.html (1953 words)

	The University of Chicago Martin Marty Center
		We may be able to distinguish meanings by observing accompanying inscriptions and related decorations.
		inscription (pre 216 CE) consists of two fragments of the burial monument of Abercius of Hierapolis in Asia.
		As with most inscriptions, we have virtually no direct physical evidence for the original context of the incised words—either on the stone that housed them, or where it and the burial itself were located.
	marty-center.uchicago.edu /conferences/thedead/abstracts.shtml (955 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Symbolism of the Fish
		The association of the Ichthys with the Eucharist is strongly emphasized in the epitaph of Abercius, the second century Bishop of Hieropolis in Phrygia (see I
		Abercius tells us on the aforesaid monument that in his journey from his Asiatic home to Rome, everywhere on the way he received as food "the Fish from the spring, the great, the pure", as well as "wine mixed with water, together with bread".
		Pectorius also speaks of the Fish as a delicious spiritual nurture supplied by the "Saviour of the Saints".
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06083a.htm (792 words)

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	Inscription of Abercius
		These words, I, Abercius, standing by, ordered to be inscribed.
		Abercius by name, I am a disciple of the pure Shepherd, who feedeth His flocks of sheep on mountains and plains, who hath great eyes looking on all sides; for He taught me faithful writings.
		In company with Paul I followed, while everywhere faith led the way, and set before me for food the fish from the fountain, mighty and stainless (whom a pure virgin grasped), and gave this to friends to eat always, having good wine and giving the mixed cup with bread.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /text/abercius.html (851 words)

	The (Iglesia Ni Cristo/Church of Christ) Doctrines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		For her daughter Falconilla had died, and said to her in a dream: Mother, thou shaft have this stranger Thecla in my place, in order that she may pray concerning me, and that I may be transferred to the place of the just."
		"Abercius by name, I am a disciple of the chaste shepherd...He taught me..
		faithful writings...These words,I, Abercius, standing by, ordered to be inscribed.In truth, I was in the course of my seventy-second year.
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	The Papacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Not many years since a new and important piece of evidence was brought to light in Asia Minor dating from this period.
		The sepulchral inscription of Abercius, Bishop of Hieropolis (d.
		He speaks thus of the Roman Church: "To Rome He [Christ] sent me to contemplate majesty: and to see a queen golden-robed and golden-sandalled." It is difficult not to recognize in this description a testimony to the supreme position of the Roman See.
	www.pax-et-veritas.org /Popes/pope.htm (11229 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Inscription of Abercius
		A Greek hagiographical text, which has, however, undergone alterations, and a Greek inscription of the second century have made known to us a certain Abercius, Bishop of Hieropolis, in Phrygia, who, about the middle of the century in question, left his episcopal city and visited Rome.
		PITRA, in the Spicilegium Solesmense (Paris, 1855, III, 533; IV, 483); DUCHESNE, Abercius, évêque d'Hieropolis, in the Revue des questions historiques (1883), XXXIV, 533; LECLERCQ, in Dict.
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	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01040a.htm (1129 words)

	Ancient sites in Tunisia, Rome inspire ‘Death, Burial and the Gods’ conference
		Burial inscriptions are one of the most valuable sources of information—demographic, social, religious, iconographic, historical—from the ancient world, said Mitchell.
		At the conference, Mitchell will present a talk titled “The Abercius Inscription: Reimagining Context and Meaning.” The epitaph of Abercius of Hieropolis in Asia Minor (Turkey) is often referred to as the earliest Christian inscription, Mitchell said.
		The funerary monument from the late-second or early-third century tells of Abercius’ trip to Rome and what he saw there.
	chronicle.uchicago.edu /050512/dead.shtml (814 words)

	Our Catholic Faith - Christ's Real Presence In The Eucharist
		To decide this question one has only to examine the oldest Liturgies of the Mass, whose essential elements date back to the time of the Apostles (see articles on the various liturgies), to visit the Roman Catacombs, where Christ is shown as present in the Eucharistic food under the symbol of a fish (see
		), to decipher the famous Inscription of Abercius of the second century, which, though composed under the influence of the Discipline of the Secret, plainly attests the faith of that age.
		And thus the argument from prescription carries us back to the dim and distant past and thence to the time of the Apostles, who in turn could have received their faith in the Real Presence from no one but Christ Himself.
	www.ourcatholicfaith.org /sacraments/realpresenceofchrist.html (8207 words)

	The Catholic Legate \| Questions & Answers
		The Tombstone of Bishop Abercius (216 A.D. --the year 300 of the Phrygian calendar)
		The bishop of Hieropolis in Asia Minor, Abercius commissioned the following inscription for his grave:
		And no one shall put another grave over my grave; but if he do, then shall he pay to the treasury of [the] Romans two thousand pieces of gold and to my good native city of Hieropolis one thousand pieces of gold." (Abercius, Tombstone inscription)
	www.catholic-legate.com /qa/purghist.html (2112 words)

	Travel and Religion in Antiquity (Canadian Society of Biblical Studies)
		Article dealing with travel in the narrative of the Acts of the Apostles
		Inscription of Abercius (Early Christian Writings, Peter Kirby)
		Links and translation (by Quasten) of the second-century grave inscription of Abercius of Hieropolis (perhaps Avercius Marcellus, a bishop), which relates this Christian's journeys across the empire
	www.philipharland.com /travelandreligion.htm (843 words)

	Time line of books and commentaries pertaining to the NT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Lost indeed the Gospel is in thine heart.
		Proof of the life of Jesus; what do you make of the casket that was found which the inscription states are the remains of the brother of Jesus?
		I read about this last year and I think I put the media info in the ancient teachings forum.
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