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Saint Hegesippus | |
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| Born | c.110 AD |
| Died | c.180 AD Jerusalem, Syria Palaestina |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church |
| Feast | 7 April |
Hegesippus (Ἅγιος Ἡγήσιππος; c. 110 – c.180 AD[1]), also known as Hegesippus the Nazarene,[2] was a Christian writer of the early Church who, in spite of his Greek name, may have been a Jewish convert[3] and certainly wrote against heresies of the Gnostics and of Marcion.
- ^ The Chronicon Paschale places the death of Hegesippus in the reign of the Roman Emperor Commodus.
- ^ James Trimm, Hegesippus the Nazarene: Fragments from His Five Books of Memoirs, retrieved 7 April 2020
- ^ W. Telfer marshals Eusebius' reasons for concluding so, in "Was Hegesippus a Jew?" The Harvard Theological Review 53.2 (April 1960:143-153).