Forbes Frances Alice. Saint Athanasius, the Father of Orthodoxy
Chapter 1 A FORESHADOWING
Chapter 2 ARIUS THE HERESIARCH
Chapter 3 THE GREAT COUNCIL
Chapter 4 THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM
Chapter 5 FALSE WITNESSES
Chapter 6 A ROYAL-HEARTED EXILE
Chapter 7 THE DAY OF REJOICING
Chapter 8 THE INVISIBLE PATRIARCH
Chapter 9 A SHORT-LIVED PEACE
Chapter 10 THE LAST EXILE
Chapter 11 THE TRUCE OF GOD
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THE Patriarch of Alexandria, Egypt was expecting company. He stood at the window of his palace looking down the long road, that at the first sign of his guests' arrival he might go forth and welcome them. Before him, like a white pearl in the blue waters of the Mediterranean, lay the city of Alexandria – "the beautiful," as men loved to call it. Across the harbor the marble tower of the great lighthouse soared up into the clear Eastern sky, white as the white cliffs of the Island of Pharos from which it sprang. It was noonday, and the sunshine lay like a veil of gold over all.
The Patriarch's thoughts were wandering in the past. He had been celebrating the anniversary of his holy predecessor Peter, the previous Bishop, who had won the crown of martyrdom during the terrible persecution of the Christians not so many years before. Several of the clergy present had come from afar to assist at the festival, and these were to be his expected guests.
