The Cult of the Saints (Biblia.com)

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The cult of the saints is a phenomenon that expanded rapidly in the fourth century, and John Chrysostom’s homilies are important witnesses to its growth. In this volume, Wendy Mayer investigates the liturgical, topographical, and pastoral aspects that marked the martyr cult at Antioch and Constantinople in Chysostom’s time. The cult’s original point of focus was the Christian martyrs—those...

5 Did you see how much precision in respect of virtue is required of the bishop? For just as a master painter mixes various colors and so renders with absolute precision whatever picture he is about to produce as an archetype of the imperial form, so that all those who copy it and paint from it have an image that is portrayed accurately in every detail. So too indeed blessed Paul, as if painting an imperial image and producing its exemplar, has mixed the various colors of virtue and sketched for

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