51. The famous Fathers of the Church were not only educated in pagan schools, but received an ecclesiastical education in the clergy of a bishop and an ascetic education in wilderness and monastic solitude. It was to this education that they owed their subsequent glorious activity for the benefit of the Church in its heyday. Cm. For more details, see Prof. V.F. Pevnitsky. Education of the Fathers of Preachers of the IV Century. - Proceedings of the Kiev Theological Academy. 1892. T.3. P.272304.

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