Dionysius headed the catechetical school of Alexandria and then served as its bishop in the mid-third century, through the persecutions of Decius and Valerian and an epidemic that ravaged the city. Charles Feltoe translates his surviving letters, Easter letters and fragments, with an introduction to his conversion, his exile and his part in debates over the lapsed and rebaptism.
A first-hand source for the early Church under pressure, for students of patristics and church history. Download the free EPUB.