Bani

Assyria's last great king, sacker of No-Amon (Thebes) in 663 BC — the precedent Nahum turns on Nineveh itself (Nah 3:8); likely the "great and noble Osnappar" of Ezra 4:10. His…

Palladius was born in Galatia, in central Asia Minor, about 363 or 364. In 386 he went to Egypt to see the monks, and the rest of his life came out of that decision. He spent…

Cyril was born about 313 and became bishop of Jerusalem around 350. He held the see, off and on, for thirty-five years — off and on because he was driven out of it three times…

Lanfranc was born at Pavia in Lombardy about 1010, the son of a city magistrate, and trained in law. He crossed the Alps in his thirties, taught for a while in France, and then…

Eusebius was born in Sardinia about 283, taken to Rome as a child after his father died, and served there as a lector. Around 345 he was made the first bishop of Vercelli, in…

Theodore was born about 350 at Antioch in Syria, into a wealthy family. He studied rhetoric and literature under Libanius, the most celebrated pagan teacher of the age…