Hopefully, they're praying for us

[judechild]

We're so confused...

Hopefully, at this time of theological uncertainty, the Fathers of the First Council of Nicaea are praying for us. They stood up valiantly for the Faith and for true doctrine; hopefully their inspiration will be granted to us too. the historian Theodorot says they "looked like an assembled army of martyrs."

"Paul, bishop of Neo-Cæsarea, a fortress situated on the banks of the Euphrates, had suffered from the frantic rage of Licinius. He had been deprived of the use of both hands by the application of a red-hot iron, by which the nerves which give motion to the muscles had been contracted and rendered dead. Some had had the right eye dug out, others had lost the right arm. Among these was Paphnutius of Egypt. In short, the Council looked like an assembled army of martyrs" (Ecclesiastical History, I, 6).

I hope God sends us a new army of martyrs.