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delivers. Of him, those who knew the man and whose acquaintance has continued down to us, commemorate countless other things, and also a marvel of this kind. In Caesarea Philippi, which the Phoenicians call Paneas, they say that at the springs shown there at the foot of the mountain called Paneion, from which the Jordan is said to flow, on a certain feast day a victim was thrown in, and by the power of the demon it miraculously disappeared, and that what happened was a celebrated wonder to those present. Astyrius, then, being present once at these doings and seeing the crowd struck with amazement at the event, pitied their error, and then, looking up to heaven, besought through Christ the God over all to expose the people-deceiving demon and to put a stop to the delusion of men. And they say that when he had prayed these things, the sacrifice suddenly floated upon the springs, and so the marvel vanished for them, no wonder ever again taking place at the spot. But since I have come to the memory of this city, I do not think it right to pass over a narrative worthy to be remembered also by those after us. For the woman with the issue of blood, whom we have learned from the holy Gospels found release from her suffering by our Savior, they said came from here, and her house was shown in the city, and wondrous memorials of the benefit done her by the Savior remain. 7.18.2 For there stood on a high stone, by the gates of her house, a bronze figure of a woman, kneeling on one knee and with her hands outstretched before her like one supplicating, and opposite this another of the same material, the upright figure of a man, decently clad in a double cloak and stretching out his hand to the woman, at whose feet on the pedestal itself grew a strange kind of plant, which, rising to the hem of the bronze double cloak, served as an antidote for all kinds of diseases. 7.18.3 This statue, they said, bore the likeness of Jesus, and it remained even to our times, so that we ourselves saw it when we visited the city. 7.18.4 And it is not surprising that those of old from the Gentiles who were benefited by our Savior should have done these things, when we have also learned that the likenesses of his apostles Paul and Peter, and indeed of Christ himself, are preserved in painted portraits, it being likely that the ancients, by a Gentile custom, were wont to honor them in this unguarded manner as saviors among themselves. 7.19.1 For the throne of James, who first received the episcopate of the church of Jerusalem from the Savior and the apostles, whom the divine words also declare to be the brother of Christ, having been preserved to this day, the brethren who successively preside there clearly show to all the kind of reverence which both those of old and those down to our time preserved and still preserve for the holy men because of their love for God. And so much for this. But Dionysius, in addition to his aforementioned epistles, also at that time composed those that are called festal, in them raising more panegyrical discussions concerning the feast of Easter. Of these he addresses one to Flavius, and another to Dometius and Didymus, in which he also sets forth a canon for an eight-year cycle, demonstrating that it is proper to celebrate the feast of Easter at no other time than after the vernal equinox; in addition to these, he writes another epistle to his fellow-presbyters throughout Alexandria, and at the same time others variously, and these while the persecution was still in effect. But when peace was all but established, he returned to Alexandria, but when again sedition and war arose there, so that it was not possible for him to oversee all the brethren throughout the city, who were divided into either part of the sedition, again at the feast of Easter, as if an exile, he addressed them from Alexandria itself through letters. 7.21.2 and after this writing to Hierax, a bishop in Egypt, another festal epistle, of the Alexandrians according to him

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παραδίδωσιν. τούτου μυρία μὲν καὶ ἄλλα μνημονεύουσιν οἱ τἀνδρὸς καὶ εἰς ἡμᾶς διαμείναντες γνώριμοι, ἀτὰρ καὶ παραδόξου τοιούτου. Ἐπὶ τῆς Φιλίππου Καισαρείας, ἣν Πανεάδα Φοίνικες προσαγορεύουσιν, φασὶ παρὰ ταῖς αὐτόθι δεικνυμέναις ἐν ταῖς ὑπωρείαις τοῦ καλουμένου. Πανείου ὄρους πηγαῖς, ἐξ ὧν καὶ τὸν Ἰορδάνην προχεῖσθαι, κατά τινα ἑορτῆς ἡμέραν σφάγιόν τι καταβάλλεσθαι καὶ τοῦτο τῇ τοῦ δαίμονος δυνάμει ἀφανὲς γίνεσθαι παραδόξως θαῦμά τε εἶναι περιβόητον τοῖς παροῦσι τὸ γινόμενον. παρόντα δ' οὖν ποτε τοῖς πραττομένοις τὸν Ἀστύριον καὶ τὸ πρᾶγμα καταπεπληγμένους ἰδόντα τοὺς πολλούς, οἰκτεῖραι τῆς πλάνης, κἄπειτα ἀνανεύσαντα εἰς οὐρανόν, ἱκετεῦσαι διὰ Χριστοῦ τὸν ἐπὶ πάντων θεὸν τὸ λαοπλάνον δαιμόνιον ἐλέγξαι καὶ παῦσαι τῆς τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἀπάτης. ταῦτα δέ φασιν εὐξαμένου, ἀθρόως τὸ ἱερεῖον ἐπιπολάσαι ταῖς πηγαῖς οὕτω τε αὐτοῖς τὸ παράδοξον οἴχεσθαι, μηδενὸς μηκέτι θαύματος περὶ τὸν τόπον γινομένου. Ἀλλ' ἐπειδὴ τῆσδε τῆς πόλεως εἰς μνήμην ἐλήλυθα, οὐκ ἄξιον ἡγοῦμαι παρελθεῖν διήγησιν καὶ τοῖς μεθ' ἡμᾶς μνημονεύεσθαι ἀξίαν. τὴν γὰρ αἱμορροοῦσαν, ἣν ἐκ τῶν ἱερῶν εὐαγγελίων πρὸς τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν τοῦ πάθους ἀπαλλαγὴν εὕρασθαι μεμαθήκαμεν, ἐνθένδε ἔλεγον ὁρμᾶσθαι τόν τε οἶκον αὐτῆς ἐπὶ τῆς πόλεως δείκνυσθαι καὶ τῆς ὑπὸ τοῦ σωτῆρος εἰς αὐτὴν εὐεργεσίας θαυμαστὰ τρόπαια παραμένειν. 7.18.2 ἑστάναι γὰρ ἐφ' ὑψηλοῦ λίθου πρὸς μὲν ταῖς πύλαις τοῦ αὐτῆς οἴκου γυναικὸς ἐκτύπωμα χάλκεον, ἐπὶ γόνυ κεκλιμένον καὶ τεταμέναις ἐπὶ τὸ πρόσθεν ταῖς χερσὶν ἱκετευούσῃ ἐοικός, τούτου δὲ ἄντικρυς ἄλλο τῆς αὐτῆς ὕλης, ἀνδρὸς ὄρθιον σχῆμα, διπλοΐδα κοσμίως περιβεβλημένον καὶ τὴν χεῖρα τῇ γυναικὶ προτεῖνον, οὗ παρὰ τοῖς ποσὶν ἐπὶ τῆς στήλης αὐτῆς ξένον τι βοτάνης εἶδος φύειν, ὃ μέχρι τοῦ κρασπέδου τῆς τοῦ χαλκοῦ διπλοΐδος ἀνιόν, ἀλεξιφάρμακόν τι παντοίων νοσημάτων τυγχάνειν. 7.18.3 τοῦτον τὸν ἀνδριάντα εἰκόνα τοῦ Ἰησοῦ φέρειν ἔλεγον, ἔμενεν δὲ καὶ εἰς ἡμᾶς, ὡς καὶ ὄψει παραλαβεῖν ἐπιδημήσαντας αὐτοὺς τῇ πόλει. 7.18.4 καὶ θαυμαστὸν οὐδὲν τοὺς πάλαι ἐξ ἐθνῶν εὐεργετηθέντας πρὸς τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν ταῦτα πεποιηκέναι, ὅτε καὶ τῶν ἀποστόλων αὐτοῦ τὰς εἰκόνας Παύλου καὶ Πέτρου καὶ αὐτοῦ δὴ τοῦ Χριστοῦ διὰ χρωμάτων ἐν γραφαῖς σῳζομένας ἱστορήσαμεν, ὡς εἰκός, τῶν παλαιῶν ἀπαραφυλάκτως οἷα σωτῆρας ἐθνικῇ συνηθείᾳ παρ' ἑαυτοῖς τοῦτον τιμᾶν εἰωθότων τὸν τρόπον. 7.19.1 Τὸν γὰρ Ἰακώβου θρόνον, τοῦ πρώτου τῆς Ἱεροσολύμων ἐκκλησίας τὴν ἐπισκοπὴν πρὸς τοῦ σωτῆρος καὶ τῶν ἀποστόλων ὑποδεξαμένου, ὃν καὶ ἀδελφὸν τοῦ Χριστοῦ χρηματίσαι οἱ θεῖοι λόγοι περιέχουσιν, εἰς δεῦρο πεφυλαγμένον οἱ τῇδε κατὰ διαδοχὴν περιέποντες ἀδελφοὶ σαφῶς τοῖς πᾶσιν ἐπιδείκνυνται οἷον περὶ τοὺς ἁγίους ἄνδρας τοῦ θεοφιλοῦς ἕνεκεν οἵ τε πάλαι καὶ οἱ εἰς ἡμᾶς ἔσῳζόν τε καὶ ἀποσῴζουσι σέβας. καὶ ταῦτα μὲν ταύτῃ. Ὅ γε μὴν ∆ιονύσιος πρὸς ταῖς δηλωθείσαις ἐπιστολαῖς αὐτοῦ ἔτι καὶ τὰς φερομένας ἑορταστικὰς τὸ τηνικαῦτα συντάττει, πανηγυρικωτέρους ἐν αὐταῖς περὶ τῆς τοῦ πάσχα ἑορτῆς ἀνακινῶν λόγους. τούτων τὴν μὲν Φλαυΐῳ προσφωνεῖ, τὴν δὲ ∆ομετίῳ καὶ ∆ιδύμῳ, ἐν ᾗ καὶ κανόνα ἐκτίθεται ὀκταετηρίδος, ὅτι μὴ ἄλλοτε ἢ μετὰ τὴν ἐαρινὴν ἰσημερίαν προσήκοι τὴν τοῦ πάσχα ἑορτὴν ἐπιτελεῖν, παριστάμενος· πρὸς ταύταις καὶ ἄλλην τοῖς κατ' Ἀλεξάνδρειαν συμπρεσβυτέροις ἐπιστολὴν διαχαράττει ἑτέροις τε ὁμοῦ διαφόρως, καὶ ταύτας ἔτι τοῦ διωγμοῦ συνεστῶτος. Ἐπιλαβούσης δὲ ὅσον οὔπω τῆς εἰρήνης, ἐπάνεισι μὲν εἰς τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρειαν, πάλιν δ' ἐνταῦθα στάσεως καὶ πολέμου συστάντος, ὡς οὐχ οἷόν τε ἦν αὐτῷ τοὺς κατὰ τὴν πόλιν ἅπαντας ἀδελφούς, εἰς ἑκάτερον τῆς στάσεως μέρος διῃρημένους, ἐπισκοπεῖν, αὖθις ἐν τῇ τοῦ πάσχα ἑορτῇ, ὥσπερ τις ὑπερόριος, ἐξ αὐτῆς τῆς Ἀλεξανδρείας διὰ γραμμάτων αὐτοῖς ὡμίλει. 7.21.2 καὶ Ἱέρακι δὲ μετὰ ταῦτα τῶν κατ' Αἴγυπτον ἐπισκόπῳ ἑτέραν ἑορταστικὴν ἐπιστολὴν γράφων, τῆς κατ' αὐτὸν τῶν Ἀλεξανδρέων