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They exiled him for preaching the truth. Glory to God for all things, he said, and died walking. A complete 20,000-word book, free and yours to keep. Not a sample chapter.
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Ash was still visible on some of their foreheads when the weeping began — the smudge of Lenten repentance mixed now with real tears, tears that had nothing to do with liturgy and everything to do with fear. The Great Church of Antioch could hold thousands, and on this day in the early spring of the year 387 it held more than that, bodies pressed into every aisle, men and women who had not darkened its doors in months suddenly desperate for something to stand between them and what the city believed was coming. Soldiers were in the streets outside. Prisons were already crowded. And the man they had all come to hear was not the bishop — the bishop was gone, on the road to Constantinople, an old man in winter making a journey many doubted he would survive — but a priest not yet forty years old, thin from decades of fasting, with a voice that did not sound, at first, like anything that could hold a terrified city together. It held them together anyway. To understand what was happening in that church, you have to understand what had happened in the city a few weeks before.
9 movements, carrying the whole life of Saint John Chrysostom from beginning to enduring memory.
- The Sermon That Broke Them Before It Ended
- A Widow, a Boy, and a City of Marble and Mud
- The Best Student Rome Ever Nearly Kept
- Two Years With Only the Rock and the Word
- The Priest Who Told the Truth About the Altar
- A Reluctant Bishop and a Furious Empress
- The Shepherd Who Would Not Be Bought
- The Voice Still in the Room
- The Door Left Open
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