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Saint Gregory  Nazianzen

Doctor of the Church

329-390

Feast Day: January 2

Patronage: for harvests, poets

Saint Gregory Nazianzen is from a family of saints, was baptized at 30, ordained a priest reluctantly at 32, and bishop at 41. During the reign of Emperor Valen, an Arian supporter, St. Basil, his lifelong friend asked him to rebuild the faith in Constantinople, an Arian stronghold. ( Which denies the divinity of Jesus Christ, believing Him not to be co-eternal with the Father.) He started renewing the faith by giving sermons on the Trinity at great suffering, slander, insults, and even personal violence to himself. Today he is simply known as “The Theologian.”

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