St. Clement of Rome
Catholic Saints
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The Apostles Are Initiated by Christ, Right?
There's one kind of fun thing in the middle of the letter. There's this... He gives these images for the resurrection. One is night and day, so night gives way to day and light,. And the other is from John, the seed that goes into the ground and decays but then grows up as a plant. The third one, which is less familiar, is of the Phoenix. So he uses the Phoenix in Arabia and every 500 years, it makes this coffin like nests with myrrh and frankincense. It would have been something that everyone is familiar with.
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