Antioch
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Major city of the Roman East; one of the first centers of Christianity. Paul was possessed by Antioch.
Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship
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ON THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE SCRIPTURES.
— Antioch possesses itself of Paul
"Antioch possesses itself of him"
Chapter I (The Six Days of Creation)
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Introduction
— Anastasius of Sinai described as "a monk and later Bishop of Antioch and Martyr"
"Anastasius of Sinai, a monk and later Bishop of Antioch and Martyr, in the year of our Lord 600, wrote eleven books of Hexameron on Genesis"