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Puritan Board Senior
November 17, 270 (traditional date):
Gregory Thaumaturgus ("The Wonder Worker"), a well-loved bishop in Pontus and the author of the first Christian biography (on Origen), dies. A legend, from a generation later, about the Virgin Mary visiting him is the first account of a Marian apparition
"Gregory was a great and conspicuous lamp, illuminating the church of God."
—Basil the Great
Parents today sometimes worry that their children will go off to college and return as converts to some strange, new religion. That's exactly what happened 1,700 years ago to Gregory of Pontus (named Theodore at his birth), only the strange, new religion was Christianity.
—Basil the Great
Parents today sometimes worry that their children will go off to college and return as converts to some strange, new religion. That's exactly what happened 1,700 years ago to Gregory of Pontus (named Theodore at his birth), only the strange, new religion was Christianity.