EUSEBIUS OF ALEXANDRIA. - Probably a fictitious figure of the Alexandrian priest John (PG 86, 1, 297-310) who published his own 22 Ascetic Treatises under this name (ibid., 313-462).

Various fragments were found by K. Holl, Fragmente vornicänischer Kirchenväter aus der Sacra Parallela (Texte und Untersuchungen, 30, 1), Leipzig 1899, pp. 214-233. No fewer than 3 different Greek recensions of Sermon 16: De die dominica were published by F. Nau (in Revue de l'Orient chrétien, 13 [1908], pp. 406-35), on which treatise see also Th. Zahn, Eine altkirchliche Rede über die Sonntagsruhe, in Zeitschrift für kirchliche Wissenschaft und kirchliches Leben, 1884, pp. 216-34. Some sermons, inspired by the Gospel of Nicodemus, have a lively character and probably later served for sacred plays.

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BIBL.: Bardenhewer, IV, p. 86 ff.; F. Nau, s. v. in DThC, V, p. 1426 ff.; on the use of the homilies in sacred plays see G. Mercati, Opere minori, II, Vatican City 1937, p. 417 ff.; G. La Piana, Le rappresentazioni sacre e la poesia ritmica drammatica nella letteratura bizantina, in Roma e l'Oriente, 3 (1941-42), pp. 26, 105, 302 ff.; A. Baumstark, Geschichte der syrischen Literatur, Bonn 1922, p. 62.

Erik Petersen

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Eusebius of Alexandria

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