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Anatolius of Laodicea

Post-Apostolic Church

INTRO

Anatolius of Laodicea wrote around AD 270 and was an overseer in Syrian Laodicea, modern-day Latakia, Syria.

LIFE

Anatolius was born and raised in Alexandria.  He was extremely knowledgeable about many things such as the teachings of Aristotle, geometry, astrology, and math.

When Zenobia, queen of the Palmyrene Empire besieged a section of Alexandria and when many people in the city were dying from the famine, Anatolius persuaded the Romans to allow many people to defect and join them in the Roman section of Alexandria as refugees.  Through this, Anatolius gained great honor among the people because he helped many Christians and non-Christians escape starvation.

WORKS

Among his writings that have survived is a work about when to celebrate Pascha, that is, Christ's resurrection.  We also have a portion of his book about mathematics.