04 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, February 16th, is Saint Pamphilus’ Day, With Footnotes – 47

Saint Pamphilus (latter half of the 3rd century – February 16, 309), was a presbyter of Caesarea and chief among biblical scholars of his generation. 

Pamphilus was of a rich and honorable family of Beirut, in which city, at that time famous for its schools. In his youth he ran through the whole circle of the sciences, and was afterward honored with the first employments of the magistracy. He gave all his property to the poor. Pamphilus went to Alexandria, Egypt, where his teacher was Pierius, the head of the famous catechetical school there; before settling in Caesarea Maritima, where he was ordained a priest…

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