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  At the Edge: A Pagan Gothic Ritual
Sozomenus presents it as a test of faith for pagans and Christians alike.
Unreliable though Sozomenus may be in describing various aspects of the Goths’ religious dispute, the wagon ritual rings true; though he obviously does not understand its significance.
The deity in the wagon evidently belongs to the religious traditions of the Goths’ ancestral lands, and its existence is supported by circumstantial evidence in the story of the martyr Saba.
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 ASSIODORUS, Magnus Aurelius (b
Cassiodorus makes frequent mentions of the relations of Sasanian Iran with Rome and with Christianity: He concurs with Sozomenus's opinion that the conversion of Persians to Christianity had been a result of their commercial contacts with the Osrhoenians and the Armenians (3.1.5, p.
309-79), as described by Sozomenus, and its victims is mentioned (3.2.27-28, pp.
Also taken from Sozomenus is an otherwise unknown story about a Persian monk named Arsacius (Arsaces), who lived on a tower at Nicaea in Bithynia (4.23, pp.
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 Photios' List of Valuable Documents
The Ecclesiastical History by Salaminius Hermias Sozomenus and The Ecclesiastical History by Socrates Scholasticus were each written only a short time after the reign of Saint Constantine.
It is said that St Photios the Great preferred the style of the History of Sozomenus.
Although it is the most recent of the two (Sozomen seems to have begun working on this history during the year A.D. 443), it is the first of the two presented here.
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 Saint John Chrysostom, Archbishop and Doctor
But the young cleric, seized by the desire of a more perfect life, soon afterwards entered one of the ascetic societies near Antioch, which was under the spiritual direction of Carterius and especially of the famous Diodorus, later Bishop of Tarsus (see Palladius, "Dialogus", v; Sozomenus, "Hist.
Prayer, manual labour and the study of Holy Scripture were his chief occupations, and we may safely suppose that his first literary works date from this time, for nearly all his earlier writings deal with ascetic and monastic subjects [cf.
Eccl., VI, 2-23, and VII, 23, 45 (P.G., LXVII, 661 sqq.); SOZOMENUS, Hist.
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 Christianism.com - Postscript Part III
450], Sozomenus, and Theodoretus and found that there was too much material in them, also that by the aid of Epiphanius Scholasticus [c.
Sozomenus wrote about 450, when Philostorgius was most likely dead.
The testimony of Photius, for we have not the original Philostorgius, is worthless and must be abandoned." [47].
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 Of Spyridon, Bishop of the Cypriots
This information about Saint Spyridon comes from The Ecclesiastical History by Salaminius Hermias Sozomenus.
The icon of Saint Spyridon shows him protecting his Church from German bombs being dropped during the Second World War.
I have also found a treatise composed in Latin by the presbyter Rufinus, from which I have collected these and some other things which will be hereafter adduced.
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 Book I
THE ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF SALAMINIUS HERMIAS SOZOMENUS, BOOK I
LITTLE more than cursory allusions to SOZOMEN occur in the works of contemporary writers; and the materials for a memoir of his life are therefore at best but few and scanty.
After many other similar exhortations, be concluded by commanding them to be diligent in prayer, and always to supplicate God for himself, his children, and the empire, and after he had thus addressed those who had come to Nicaea, he bade them farewell.
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 Volume XXV: Socrates Scholasticus: Ecclesiastical History; Sozomenus: Ecclesiastical History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
Volume XXV: Socrates Scholasticus: Ecclesiastical History; Sozomenus: Ecclesiastical History
THE ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF SALAMINIUS HERMIAS SOZOMENUS, BOOK II
THE ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF SALAMINIUS HERMIAS SOZOMENUS, BOOK V
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 Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers, 2nd Series, vol. II: Socrates, Sozomenus: Church Histories - SCHAFF, PHILIP & HENRY WACE ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
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