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The New International Encyclopædia/Aristides, Saint

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ARISTIDES, Saint. A Greek Christian apologist, of the First Century, who also taught rhetoric and philosophy. He presented to the Emperor Hadrian an apology for the Christian faith, which was highly esteemed by the early Church. This work is lost, with the exception of a fragment discovered and published at Venice in 1878. His day is August 31.