The Philosopher of Canterbury - St. Theodore of Tarsus
Thursday, July 23, 2026 31 mins
Rome, 667, and the plague is burying the dead again: among them the Englishman sent from Canterbury to be made archbishop, dead within days of arriving. The Pope, with the letters of the English kings in his hand and the candidate in the ground, must find someone to send to that island at the end of the world. The man he finds is a sixty-six-year-old Greek monk, a refugee from the eastern edge of Christendom, born under the walls of St. Paul's Tarsus, so learned that men called him "the Philosopher." Dcn. Seraphim tells the story of St. Theodore of Tarsus, who came to Canterbury at sixty-seven and spent twenty-one years building, organizing, teaching, and healing until the quarrelsome missionary churches of the English were truly one Church. Music used: "Across The Fields Of Gold" Yagull Music - Sasha Branislav Markovic, Mayu Saeki
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