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'''Ephraim of Nea Makri''' is a supposed 15th Century martyr invented in the [[dreams]] of a Greek [[New Calendarist]] nun in 1950. | '''Ephraim of Nea Makri''' is a supposed 15th Century martyr invented in the [[dreams]] of a Greek [[New Calendarist]] nun in 1950. | ||
| − | :<em>...and let steps be taken to prevent the right-minded from being seized with any superstitious awe of such places, and to see that no commemoration whatever of Martyrs by the same token be celebrated, unless there be somewhere a body or some remains, or an account of them <b>that has been handed down by tradition from antiquity</b>. For as regards all sacrificial [[altar|altars]] that have been erected anywhere on the strength of dreams or vain revelations offered by any human beings, let all such stories be <b>by all means discredited</b></em>< | + | :<em>...and let steps be taken to prevent the right-minded from being seized with any superstitious awe of such places, and to see that no commemoration whatever of Martyrs by the same token be celebrated, unless there be somewhere a body or some remains, or an account of them <b>that has been handed down by tradition from antiquity</b>. For as regards all sacrificial [[altar|altars]] that have been erected anywhere on the strength of dreams or vain revelations offered by any human beings, let all such stories be <b>by all means discredited</b></em><br/>—Canon 91 of the [[Council of Carthage in 418 AD]].<ref>As found in [[The Rudder]]. Canon 83 in [[Philip Schaff]]'s Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers series.</ref> |
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Ephraim of Nea Makri is a supposed 15th Century martyr invented in the dreams of a Greek New Calendarist nun in 1950.
- ...and let steps be taken to prevent the right-minded from being seized with any superstitious awe of such places, and to see that no commemoration whatever of Martyrs by the same token be celebrated, unless there be somewhere a body or some remains, or an account of them that has been handed down by tradition from antiquity. For as regards all sacrificial altars that have been erected anywhere on the strength of dreams or vain revelations offered by any human beings, let all such stories be by all means discredited
—Canon 91 of the Council of Carthage in 418 AD.[1]
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- ↑ As found in The Rudder. Canon 83 in Philip Schaff's Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers series.
