The Collect
ALMIGHTY, everlasting God, whose servant Athanasius steadfastly confessed the Son our Saviour Jesus Christ to be Very God and Very Man: Grant that we many hold fast to this faith, and evermore magnify his holy Name; through the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.
Readings: (2 Corinthians iv. 5; Saint Matthew x. 23)
Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, also called Athanasius the Great and Athanasius the Confessor was the twentieth bishop of Alexandria. His episcopate lasted 45 years, of which over 17 were spent in five exiles ordered by four different Roman emperors. Athanasius is a renowned Christian theologian, a Church Father, the chief defender of Trinitarianism against Arianism and a noted Egyptian leader of the fourth century.
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