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I met many remarkable people among the Christian community living in Alexandria and we spent long hours reading and discussing the gospels together, as well as the epistles of Paul and other writings. Eusebius was a patient tutor and I had a voracious appetite for what he was able to reveal to me. In the end, after all my studies, I felt I was entering a new life, starting afresh. I emerged from the breadth of my studies feeling I had been translated into a different existence.

On the suggestion of Theodorus and after much prayer and soul-searching I took holy orders; I was ordained as a priest. From now on I knew I had a direction to follow, a path to take, to help others and to spread God’s word of redemption throughout the world. It was a remarkable feeling but I knew I had a very definite message to deliver, one that I had first sensed on the day of my baptism and as the months went by it was one I was to discern more and more. I knew that God had a mission for me to perform and for the first time in my life I slowly gained the sensation that I was truly needed. I felt ready to go out into the world.

DAVID PRICE WILLIAMS