'Snapshots of the Divine Life'
Short Lessons from the Lives and Sayings of the Fathers and Saints
Update #1: Pope St Matthew I on Animals

25/01/10 

The hyena: a repulsive and fearsome beast that most of us would think the world better off without. But what does the encounter of the Saintly Pope Matthew I of Alexandria (15th C) with such a creature teach us about the proper Christian conception of, and attitude to animals and their place in the Orthodox Christian worldview?

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