Hilary of Poitiers

American  

noun

1. Saint, a.d. c300–368, French bishop and theologian.

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Hilary of Poitiers British  

/ ˈhɪlərɪ /

noun

1. Saint. ?315–?367 _ad , French bishop, an opponent of Arianism. Feast day: Jan 13 or 14

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Hilary of Poitiers

Oxford, for example has Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity, marking the feast days of the Archangel Michael, St Hilary of Poitiers and the metaphysical constitution of God.

From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2012

Hosius of Cordova was still the patriarch of Christendom, while Paulinus of Trier, Dionysius of Milan, and Hilary of Poitiers proved their faith in exile.

From The Arian Controversy by Gwatkin, Henry Melvill

Hilary of Poitiers argued that there must be twenty-four books, on account of the twenty-four letters in the Greek alphabet.

From History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom by White, Andrew Dickson

The number of doctores ecclesiæ was increased by Pius IX. by the addition of Hilary of Poitiers in 1851, Liguori in 1870, and Francis de Sales in 1877.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.

From the sunny land of Aquitaine, the firmest conquest of Roman civilization in Atlantic Europe, came Hilary of Poitiers, the noblest representative of Western literature in the Nicene age.

From The Arian Controversy by Gwatkin, Henry Melvill