** Melito of Sardis

Perhaps the earliest extant primary source referencing Easter is a mid-2nd century Paschal homily attributed to Melito of Sardis, which characterizes the celebration as a well-established one.

* Melito of Sardis, bishop of Sardis

* Bishop Melito of Sardis ( d. ca 180 ) was a eunuch, according to the church history of Eusebius of Caesarea, though, significantly the word " virgin " was substituted in Rufino's Latin translation of Eusebius.

5. 24 ) states that " Melito the eunuch " was interred at Sardis.

The " Sitz im Leben " of the paschal homily of Melito of Sardis with special reference to the paschal festival in early Christianity.

* Catholic Encyclopedia: Melito of Sardis

# REDIRECT Melito of Sardis

The story also appears in De Transitu Virginis, a late 5th century work ascribed to St. Melito of Sardis that presents a theologically redacted summary of the traditions in the Liber Requiei Mariae.

There is certainly evidence that just 30 years after Hadrian's temple had been built, Christians associated it with the site of Golgotha ; Melito of Sardis, a late 2nd century bishop in the region, described the location as in the middle of the street, in the middle of the city, which matches the position of Hadrian's temple within the late 2nd century city.

The earliest recorded instance of an accusation of deicide against the Jewish people as a whole — that they were collectively responsible for the death of Jesus — occurs in a sermon of 167 CE attributed to Melito of Sardis entitled Peri Pascha, On the Passover.

The quartodecimens held the old testament feast of Passover looking to Christ's fulfilment of its symbols .> Polycarp, a disciple of John the Apostle ), and bishop of Smyrna ( c. 69-c. 155 ), was the most prominent of the quartodecimans, Melito of Sardis ( d. c. 180 ) was also notable.

Though not part of Roman Catholic dogma, many Christians, including members of the clergy, have held the Jewish people collectively responsible for killing Jesus, a practice originated by Melito of Sardis.

* Transitus Beatae Mariae Virginis is a late 5th century work ascribed to St. Melito of Sardis that presents a theologically redacted summary of the traditions in the Liber Requiei Mariae.

* Saint Melito of Sardis, Bishop of Sardis ( 177 )

: PG 5: Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp, Melito of Sardis, Papias of Hierapolis, Apollonius of Ephesus, etc.

Apollinaris and Melito of Sardis were both 2nd century writers that wrote about the end of Christian celebration of the Jewish Passover.

He, Polycrates, claimed that he was simply following the practices according to scripture and the Gospels, as taught by the Apostles John and Philip, as well as by church leaders such as Polycarp and Melito of Sardis.

He landed at Melito on August 14, and marched at once into the Calabrian mountains.

Melito was a prolific early Christian writer, judging from lists of his works preserved by Eusebius and Jerome.

Around 170 after traveling to Palestine, and probably visiting the library at Caesarea Maritima, Melito compiled the earliest known Christian canon of the Old Testament, a term he coined.

Melito presented elaborate parallels between the Old Testament or Old Covenant, which he likened to the form or mold, and the New Testament or New Covenant, which he likened to the truth that broke the mold, in a series of Eklogai, six books of extracts from the Law and the Prophets presaging Christ and the Christian faith.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, Melito was a Chiliast, and believed in a Millennial reign of Christ on Earth, and followed Irenaeus in his views.

Origen, in a brief note, relates that Melito ascribed corporeality to God, and believed that the likeness of God is preserved in the human body.

The note is too brief to tell exactly what Melito might have meant by this.

* Hansen, Adolf, and Melito.

* Melito, and Bernhard Lohse.

* Melito, J.

* Melito, J.

* Melito, and Josef Blank.

* Melito, and Othmar Perler.

* Melito, and Richard C. White.

Melito was a Quartodeciman ( Fourteenther ),

She bore him two sons, Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar Mendoza, who was once selected to be the husband of Lucrezia Borgia, and another, who was named Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, 1st Count of Melito in Italy, not to be confounded with other people mentioned also above and who was the grandfather of the princess of Eboli of the reign of Philip II of Spain ( see Antonio Perez ).

According to St. Melito in the 2nd century AD, it was considered canonical by Jews and Christians, and a Hebrew translation of the Wisdom of Solomon is mentioned by Naḥmanides in the preface to his commentary on the Pentateuch.

Debates regarding practice and belief gradually became reliant on the use of scripture other than what Melito referred to as the Old Testament, as the New Testament canon developed.

Other early premillennialists included Pseudo-Barnabas, Papias, Methodius, Lactantius, Commodianus Theophilus, Tertullian, Melito, Hippolytus of Rome, Victorinus of Pettau and various Gnostics groups and the Montanists.

Darius died while in the process of preparing a second army to invade the Greek mainland, leaving to his son the task of punishing the Athenians, Naxians, and Eretrians for their interference in the Ionian Revolt, the burning of Sardis and their victory over the Persians at Marathon.

Thrasybulus largely faded from view for several years as Conon led the Athenian fleet to a series of victories, but in 392 BC Conon was imprisoned by the Persian satrap Tiribazus while attending a peace conference at Sardis ; although released, he died in Cyprus without returning to Athens.

Circa 262 BC Antiochus tried to break the growing power of Pergamum by force of arms, but suffered defeat near Sardis and died soon afterwards.

Al-Ma ' mun made preparations for a major campaign and died on the way while leading an expedition in Sardis.

He retired from business in 1912, and died a year later, in Sardis ; he was interred in Rosehill Cemetery.