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History of the First Council of Nice: A Worlds Christian Convention, A. D. 325 with a Life of Constantine (Cosimo, Inc., 2007)
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Tillemont, "Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire ecclésiastique des six premiers siècles", Vol 6, (troisième partie, 1709) p. 687.
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par J. Nadal, Histoire hagiologique, ou Vies des Saints et des
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Fathers of the Eastern Church (St Vladimir's Seminary Press 1980)
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