Famine

Arnobius taught rhetoric at Sicca Veneria, a town in the Roman province of Numidia in North Africa, in the years around AD 300. He was good at it and well known for it, and for…

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…

Macrina was born about 327 at Caesarea in Cappadocia, the eldest of ten children in one of the most remarkable families in Christian history. Her grandmother Macrina the Elder…

John became patriarch of Antioch in 428 and held the seat until his death in 441. He had been a monk before that, trained in the Antiochene tradition of biblical…

Ephrem was born about 306 at Nisibis, a fortified city on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire, in what is now southeastern Turkey. He spent most of his life there, serving…