Compromise

Nerses was born in 1153 at the castle of Lambron in Cilicia — Armenian Cilicia, the kingdom Armenians had built along the southeastern coast of Asia Minor after the Seljuk…

Acacius was the pupil, librarian and successor of Eusebius, the historian of the church. He took the see of Caesarea in Palestine about 340 and kept it until his death in 366…

Acacius was born in Syria around 322 and died past his hundredth year. He was trained as a monk under Asterius near Antioch, and lived long enough that a man who could remember…

Sophronius was born about 560 in Damascus and taught rhetoric before he gave it up for the monastic life — men who knew him called him Sophronius the Sophist. He travelled for…

Anselm was born in 1033 at Aosta, in the Alps of northern Italy. His mother was devout; his father was not, and after her death the household became impossible. Anselm left…