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 1 4     |        nurture. We speak of St. Ephrem the Syrian, whom Gregory
 2 4     |  hundred-fold."[13] We speak of Ephrem, whom all the inspired orthodox
 3 4(13) |          Gregory Nyssa, Life of Ephrem, chap. 1, n. 4.~
 4 6     |       The birthplace of Blessed Ephrem could have been Nisibi or
 5 6(15) |                         Vita S. Ephrem.~
 6 6     |     judgment."[16] In his youth Ephrem, as he bewails in his little
 7 6     |      soon as he was exonerated, Ephrem at once put on the habit
 8 6     |       363, it did fall. Because Ephrem preferred exile to serving
 9 6(16) |               Confession of St. Ephrem, n. 9.~
10 7     |      his learning and holiness, Ephrem's fame spread from that
11 7     |     time that Basil consecrated Ephrem deacon.[19] ~
12 7(18) |                         Vita S. Ephrem chap. 4, n. 17.~
13 8     |                             8.~ Ephrem never left his solitude
14 9     |          as by the sincerity of Ephrem. With the money he begged,
15 9(22) |                         Vita S. Ephrem, chap. 6, n. 23.~
16 10    |           reads as follows. "I, Ephrem, am dying. With fear, but
17 10    |     mother of the wise." And so Ephrem died, but his memory lives
18 11    | testifies about the writings of Ephrem in his day, he tells us
19 11    |    recognized "the sublimity of Ephrem's genius even in the translations"
20 12    |     knowledge of sacred things. Ephrem lived among people whose
21 12    |         their errors. Therefore Ephrem, like youthful David killing
22 13    |  artistry introduced by Blessed Ephrem added dignity to sacred
23 13    |       rhythm" had it origins in Ephrem's Syrian antiphonary. ~
24 14    |     stress the authority of St. Ephrem. Nyssenus says of his writings, "
25 14    |      And Chrysostom: "The great Ephrem [is] scourge of the slothful,
26 14(30)|                         Vita S. Ephrem.~
27 15    |  bestows great glory on blessed Ephrem and proposes him to this
28 17    |        men, in the tradition of Ephrem - We mean the illustrious
29 18    |         learn this from Blessed Ephrem: the love of the fatherland,
30 18    |       common father and pastor. Ephrem also teaches that the sources
31 20(40)|                             St. Ephrem, Encom. in Petrum et Paulum.~
32 21    |     Venerable Brothers Ignatius Ephrem II Rahmani, Patriarch of
33 21    |        earnestly to bestow upon Ephrem, the Syrian Deacon of Edessa,
34 21    |       always considered Blessed Ephrem a teacher of the truth and
35 21    |         it commemorated Blessed Ephrem in the Martyrology for February
36 21    |      the Blessed Virgin and St. Ephrem. Our predecessors Gregory
37 21    |        publish the works of St. Ephrem in order to illustrate the
38 21    |      Priory of St. Benedict and Ephrem in Jerusalem, a proper mass
39 22    |   Authority, We confer upon St. Ephrem the Syrian, Deacon of Edessa,
40 23    |       of God and the aid of St. Ephrem those obstacles might collapse