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Palladius: Dialogue on the Life of St. John Chrysostom is unavailable, but you can change that!

Probably written between AD 406–408, this dialogue between an unidentified bishop and Theodore—a deacon of a church in Rome—aims to point out Chrysostom as a model of what a true Christian bishop should be.

Deacon: Many thanks, father, for the hospitality of your brotherly love. We found this most helpful and it will be remembered as long as we live. (After these high compliments Theodore was quiet, and one of those present spoke up: “But how could you consider him haughty827 as he was a being endowed with all those graces?” (Bishop: Did you yourself know him for a haughty man or do you have it from someone
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