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Hello and welcome to Catholic Saints, the podcast about the lives of the saints and their legacy for the church and for us. I'm Dr. Elizabeth Klein and I'm joined today by Dr. Jean-Paul-Juge to talk about Hilary of Poitiers. Thanks for having me. Yeah, thanks for joining me. So before we jump right into things, this is your first year at the Augustine Institute, brand new first time on the show.

So why don't you say, what are you teaching this fall?

Yeah, I'll be teaching Catholic faith and Church of the Fathers, which is our patristic seminar with the MA and Biblical Studies students.

And then I'll be co-teaching Light to the Nations with Dr. Carl Benersstrom.

Awesome. So both of these courses deal heavily with early Christian history. Dr. Jules is an

expert in the fathers, which is relevant to today because we are going to be talking about

Hillary of Poitier, who is a fourth century theologian and bishop, whose feast day is the 13th of

January. So why don't you take it away? Tell us a little bit about Hillary, whoologian, and bishop, whose feast day is the 13th of January.

So why don't you take it away?

Tell us a little bit about Hillary, who he is, where he's from.

What's his story?

Right.

Yeah.

Most of the fame and glory of the 4th century Latin, or 4th and 5th century Latin theologians goes to Augustine and

to Ambrose.

But Hillary, even though he gets passed over, is really important to the development of Christian

doctrine.

He gets known as the Athanasius of the West.

For some of you who may know, Athanasius is the great Greek bishop in the 4th century who

drives home the teaching at the Council of Nicaea that the Son of God is equal to God the Father.

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