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Gregory Thaumaturgus or Gregory the Miracle-Worker (Ancient Greek: Γρηγόριος ὁ Θαυματουργός, Grēgórios ho Thaumatourgós; Latin: Gregorius Thaumaturgus; c. 213 – 270), also known as Gregory of Neocaesarea, was a Christian bishop of the 3rd century.
Saint Gregory Thaumaturgus (born c. 213, Neocaesarea, Pontus Polemoniacus [now Niksar, Turkey]—died c. 270, Neocaesarea; feast day November 17) was a Greek Christian apostle of Roman Asia and champion of orthodoxy in the 3rd-century Trinitarian (nature of God) controversy.
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Gregory came to learn pagan philosophy; his teacher converted him (and his brother, Athenodorus) to Christianity. When Gregory returned home, he found a Christian community of 17 people waiting...
Feastday: November 17. Patron: of against earthquakes, desperate causes, floods, forgotten causes, impossible causes, lost causes. Birth: 213. Death: 270. Author and Publisher - Catholic Online. Printable Catholic Saints PDFs. Shop St. Gregory Thaumaturgus. Gregory was of a distinguished pagan family.
Learn about Gregory Thaumaturgus, a fourth-century bishop of Pontus who converted many pagans with his miracles. He studied under Origen, influenced the Cappadocian Fathers and became a saint in Church history.
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6 days ago · They began to call him “Thaumaturgus,” the “wonder-worker.” He was like a kind of opening onto heaven. But of all the miracles attributed to Gregory, perhaps the most memorable remains this: tradition states that this man, who was consecrated bishop of seventeen believers, left only seventeen non-believers in Neocaesarea at his death.
the life of Gregory Thaumaturgus. AT ABOUT the time, in the early third century, when Gregory Thaumaturgus was born in the remote northeastern region of Asia Minor called Pontus, the em peror Caracalla was issuing the Constitutio Antoniniana, which conferred Roman citizenship upon practically everyone in the empire. As with so much else about.