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Apoteichisis

Saints who resisted heresy

St Elias of Jerusalem

Ἅγιος Ἠλίας Ἱεροσολύμων

Defended the Council of Chalcedon and refused communion with anti-Chalcedonian hierarchs, including Severus of Antioch; deposed and exiled in 516. The supplied Greek book records this case on printed pp. 669 and 683.

Period
†518
Witness
Patriarch of Jerusalem, Chalcedonian confessor
Controversy
Christology and the Theotokos

Witness under persecution

What this saint faced

Defended the Council of Chalcedon and refused communion with anti-Chalcedonian hierarchs, including Severus of Antioch; deposed and exiled in 516. The supplied Greek book records this case on printed pp. 669 and 683.

Exile, imprisonment or torture

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How long did the persecution last?

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Words and testimony of the Holy Fathers

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