What examples do you know from the Lives of the Saints who had broken communion with heretics before their synodal condemnation?
Lives of the Saints - breaking communion with heretics
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Andrei C.
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Lives of the Saints - breaking communion with heretics
"When on a clear fall night I gaze upon the clear heavens, illumined by innumerable stars that send out a single light, then I say to myself: thus are the writings of the holy fathers. When on a summer's day I gaze upon the wide sea, covered with a multitude of distinct waves, driven by a single wind to a single end, a single pier, then I say to myself: such are the writings of the fathers. When I hear a well-ordered choir, in which different voices sing a single hymn in shimmering harmony, then I say to myself: such are the writings of the fathers." (St. Ignatius Brianchaninov)
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Saint Maximus the Confessor is generally mentioned. Also investigate the case of Nestorianism; it seems that when Nestorius invented his teaching, some immediately broke communion. Arius was also expelled since the beginning by his bishop Peter of Alexandria, I believe. Also have a lookk to canon 15 of First-Second council that deals with stopping commemoration of heretic bishops.
Priidite, poklonimsja i pripadem ko Hristu.
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Re: Lives of the Saints - breaking communion with heretics
Thank you, Jean-Serge, but I need some examples.
By now I know cases of St. Hipatius of Rufinian, St. Maximus the Confessor and St. Theodore the Studite - interesting is that all of them have lived before the I-II Council of Constantinople.
"When on a clear fall night I gaze upon the clear heavens, illumined by innumerable stars that send out a single light, then I say to myself: thus are the writings of the holy fathers. When on a summer's day I gaze upon the wide sea, covered with a multitude of distinct waves, driven by a single wind to a single end, a single pier, then I say to myself: such are the writings of the fathers. When I hear a well-ordered choir, in which different voices sing a single hymn in shimmering harmony, then I say to myself: such are the writings of the fathers." (St. Ignatius Brianchaninov)
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Re: Lives of the Saints - breaking communion with heretics
Andrei C. wrote:Thank you, Jean-Serge, but I need some examples.
By now I know cases of St. Hipatius of Rufinian, St. Maximus the Confessor and St. Theodore the Studite - interesting is that all of them have lived before the I-II Council of Constantinople.
Please do share your findings and sources. Thanks.
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