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Originally Posted by mizpeh
Maybe they should look for the same sign as befell Fabianus when he was elected bishop of Rome:
[Year of Christ 236.] Fabianus, called by the Greeks Fahius, by Eutychius.6 and in the Chronicle of Alexandria, Flavianus,7was, according to Eusebius, miraculously chosen for successor to Anterus; for he tells us, " That the people and clergy beins assembled in order to proceed to a new election, a dove, unexpectedly appearing, settled, to the great surprise of all present, on the head of Fabi- anus, who was not so much as thought of, being but a layman, as appears from the account, and not an inhabitant of Rome, but just then come out of the country. At this prodigy the whole assembly cried out with one voice, 'Fabianus is our bishop;' and, crowding round him, placed him without further delay on the episcopal throne."—
http://books.google.com/books?id=dCX...l7uV9zWOKOeI6R
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf...bius#highlight |
Hey, I had a butterfly land on my shoulder once. Close enough?