Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Ephrem the Syrian
Born: 306
Died: June 9, 373 (aged 67)
Bio: Ephrem the Assyrian was a Syriac deacon and a prolific Syriac-language hymnographer and theologian of the 4th century from the region of Assyria. His works are hailed by Christians throughout the world, and many denominations venerate him as a saint.
Known for:
- Hymns on paradise
- Selected prose works
- Hymns of Saint Ephrem the Syrian
- Hymni Et Sermones
- Book of Steps