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EUSEBIUS OF LAODICEA

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 953 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EUSEBIUS OF See also:LAODICEA , though not included among the See also:saints, was noted for his saintly See also:life. He was an Alexandrian by See also:birth, and gained so See also:great a reputation for his self-denial and charity that when in 262 the See also:city was besieged by the troops of the See also:emperor See also:Gallienus he obtained permission, together with Anatolius, from their See also:commander Theodotus, to See also:lead out the non-combatants, whom he tended " like a See also:father and physician." He went with Anatolius to See also:Syria, and took See also:part in the controversy against See also:Paul of See also:Samosata, See also:bishop of See also:Antioch. He became bishop of Laodicea, probably in the following See also:year (263), and died some See also:time before 268. His friend Anatolius succeeded him as bishop in the latter year (see the See also:article by E. Hennecke in See also:Herzog-Hauck, v. 619).

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