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Letter CXLIV. To Julian, Bishop of Cos. (Speaking of rumours which have reached him of disturbances at Alexandria, and begging of him to be on the alert.) · Letter CXLV. To Leo Augustus . (Asking him to help the church of Alexandria in appointing a good bishop in place of the murdered Proterius .)

Letter CXLVI

Page 106 of 514

To Anatolius, Bishop of Constantinople.

(Begging him to take precautions lest the change of Emperor should be made the occasion for fresh outbreaks of heresy.)

Notes

  1. 573

    Marcian died in 457, and was succeeded by Leo of Thrace.

  2. 574

    On Marcian's death there had been a rising, in which Proterius had been brutally murdered, and a monk named Timothy Ælurus set up in his stead.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Volume 12, ed. Philip Schaff and Henry Wace (1890–1900). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.