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He received secular, philosophical, as well as theological training at Alexandria.

Specifically his theological learning was in the famed Catechetical School of Alexandria.

He recounts being a student in that school who was educated by the Martyrs of the Great ( tenth ) and last persecution of Christianity at the hands of pagan Rome.

This persecution was most severe in the East, particularly in Egypt and Palestine.

Possibly one of his teachers was St. Peter of Alexandria, the 17th archbishop of Alexandria who was martyred in 311 in the closing days of that persecution.