HIST 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Brigid Of Kildare, The Emerald Isle, Thaumaturgy
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Monasticism and missions: from st martin of tours to pope gregory and the mission to england lomoarcpsd. The angelic life of those in heaven. Monks and nuns are simply christians give ordinary ways of human life, marriage and to live like the angels. Jesus: eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of god . Eunuchs that are born that way and eunuchs that are man-made . Meaning there are men who aren"t literally eunuchs, but they are born for god and not to be married, and they don"t have families. In other words, end of the world is coming soon, and don"t get hung up with material possessions, status", etc. you can"t take any of that to heaven. St athanasius (in exile in italy c. 340). He complained bitterly about the nicaea creed being the right way, and arianism not being right. The life of st anthony in latin translation. So st athanasius wrote a book about him.
