It was necessary that Christ should suffer and so enter into his glory.
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On Tuesday within the Octave of Easter, a reading by Saint Anastasius of Antioch.
Saint Anastasius was the patriarch of Antioch twice. The church of Antioch is held to be the first church of Christianity and is said to have been established on February 22nd of the year 37. Antioch was then the capital of the east and where the faith so clearly took such deep roots as to give birth there to be named Christians.
Some have referred to Saint Anastasius as “a man of singular learning and piety“. He was a friend of Pope Gregory I. Saint Anastasius aroused the enmity of the emperor Justinian by opposing certain imperial doctrines about the Body of Christ.
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