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8 January – Saint Apollinaris the Apologist, Bishop & Martyr
Optional Memorial (Christmas Season)
Second-century bishop of Hierapolis in Phrygia (modern Turkey), one of the earliest defenders of the faith. A learned man who wrote brilliant apologies against Jews and pagans, and a five-book treatise *Against the Heresies* that St. Jerome praised centuries later.
When the Montanist heresy (wild prophecies, end-times frenzy) started shaking the Church in his region, Apollinaris stood firm, refuting it with Scripture and reason. Tradition says he crowned his witness with martyrdom under Marcus Aurelius.
We know him mostly through Eusebius and Jerome — fragments survive, but his courage echoes loud. In an age when Christianity was still illegal and weird to Romans, he used intellect as a weapon for truth.
White vestments. The Christmas light still burns as we honor an early warrior who explained the Infant King to a hostile world.
When faith gets attacked with half-truths and mockery today, remember Apollinaris: answer with clarity, charity, and unflinching conviction.
St. Apollinaris, pray for apologists, theologians, and all who defend the faith in dark times.
#Avi #Catholic #Apollinaris #EarlyChurchFathers #FaithAndCrypto
Optional Memorial (Christmas Season)
Second-century bishop of Hierapolis in Phrygia (modern Turkey), one of the earliest defenders of the faith. A learned man who wrote brilliant apologies against Jews and pagans, and a five-book treatise *Against the Heresies* that St. Jerome praised centuries later.
When the Montanist heresy (wild prophecies, end-times frenzy) started shaking the Church in his region, Apollinaris stood firm, refuting it with Scripture and reason. Tradition says he crowned his witness with martyrdom under Marcus Aurelius.
We know him mostly through Eusebius and Jerome — fragments survive, but his courage echoes loud. In an age when Christianity was still illegal and weird to Romans, he used intellect as a weapon for truth.
White vestments. The Christmas light still burns as we honor an early warrior who explained the Infant King to a hostile world.
When faith gets attacked with half-truths and mockery today, remember Apollinaris: answer with clarity, charity, and unflinching conviction.
St. Apollinaris, pray for apologists, theologians, and all who defend the faith in dark times.
#Avi #Catholic #Apollinaris #EarlyChurchFathers #FaithAndCrypto
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