Event Factoid
https://spear-prosop.org/3136-10Event Factoid: Severus
appeals to Gregory of
Nazianzus to prove the efficacy of the
Eucharist regardless of its administrator. Just as Baptism is valid
regardless of the priest, and the seal of the king is valid regardless
if it's set it in gold or wax, so the Eucharist is efficacious
regardless of the priest.
Sources:
- Ernest Walter Brooks,The Sixth Book of the Select Letters of Severus, Patriarch of Antioch, in the Syriac
Version of Athanasius of Nisibis. Translation, Part II: Letters III.1-XI.1, vol. 2.2 (London: Williams and Norgate, 1904), part: 3.03, p: 239-241.
