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Even if we were removed to the most extreme limits of the universe, and then we could not forget your love and would take your image with us everywhere: to such an extent have you captivated and captivated us, my most honest and reverent master! So now, living in Kukuza, the most deserted place of our entire state, we constantly remember your kindness, courtesy, courtesy, your sincere, fiery and living disposition towards us, your jealousy, more fiery than fire, about all the other virtues of your soul, and, enjoying these memories, we divulge to everyone about the firmness of your decision and the steadfastness that you showed in relation to those fighting against church and filled the universe with so many temptations, although all this does not need our disclosure at all, because by your very deeds you yourself proclaimed this for all to hear throughout the East and even beyond its borders. We testify to you our gratitude for this, we please, we glorify you and earnestly ask you to remain forever faithful to the zeal you have shown. It is not the same thing to be right when things are moving along a favorable course, or not only not to get carried away, but to remain unshakable when many are attempting to ruin the church, turning away from them with due courage. In the present case, such steadfastness will serve, not just a little, but extremely much, to correct the evil. That with such a view of the matter of your reverence, all, my most honest and reverent gentlemen, the bishops of Palestine, will follow in your footsteps, this, of course, should not be doubted. I know very well that in matters of such importance you know how to inextricably unite and bind them to yourself with the sweetness of love for you, just as the body is united and bound with the head, and this is equally a new and greatest proof of your valor. The paragraphs in the text were arranged by us. – Editorial staff of “ABC of Faith” Bishop Eulogius was the Metropolitan of Caesarea in Palestine, that is, the head of all Palestinian churches, excluding Jerusalem. You might be interested in: