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This episode, we are going to dive into the life of St. John Christosome.

My name is Mary McGeehan.

I work here at the Gutson Institute, and this is Dr. Carl Vennerstrom, professor here at Puggets Institute.

Thanks for giving us your expertise today.

I'm very glad to be here.

Happy to have you.

So this episode, we want to learn more about the life of St. John Chrysostom and learn more about him as wisdom for ourselves on this journey, this journey of holiness.

So what do we need to know about St. John, Chrysostom, in his early life?

What time was, where was he born?

What time period did he grow up in, et cetera?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So St. John Chrysostom or Chrysostom, you were talking about this earlier.

I don't really care about pronunciation. But yeah, you just get out of all the syllables.

He was born in 347, so this is the fourth century, a sort of heady time for the church, I guess.

So born in the same century as St. Augustine.

He was born in Antioch, which you'll remember from the acts of the

apostles, of course, the first place where the followers of Jesus were called Christians.

And he was born into a kind of well-to-do Christian family. He was born into a kind of well-to-do Christian family.

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