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S i d e b a r
What Do the Fathers Say?
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This Rock
Volume 17, Number 8
 October 2006 
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Clement of Alexandria
In this way is he [the true Christian] always pure for prayer. He also prays in the society of angels, as being already of angelic rank, and he is never out of their holy keeping; and though he pray alone, he has the choir of the saints standing with him [in prayer]. (Miscellanies 7:12 [A.D. 208]).
Ephraim the Syrian
You victorious martyrs who endured torments gladly for the sake of the God and Savior, you who have boldness of speech toward the Lord himself, you saints, intercede for us who are timid and sinful men, full of sloth, that the grace of Christ may come upon us and enlighten the hearts of all of us so that we may love him. (Commentary on Mark [A.D. 370]).
Augustine
A Christian people celebrates together in religious solemnity the memorials of the martyrs, both to encourage their being imitated and so that it can share in their merits and be aided by their prayers. (Against Faustus the Manichean [A.D. 400]).
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