It Appears That I am Just Like St. Melito of Sardis

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After in depth questioning (4 of them, to be exact) I am told that:

"I have a great love of history and liturgy. I'm attached to the traditions of the ancients, yet recognize that the old world — great as it was — is passing away. I am loyal to the customs of my family, though I do not hesitate to call family members to account for their sins."

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I had to learn some more about this man so I checked Catholic.org and learned that Iittle is known about the life of St. Melito of Sardis.

He was a II Century exegete and apologist who served as bishop of Sardis near Lydia, Asia Minor (near modern Izmir, ancient Smyrna).

St. Melito was thought to have been a hermit and a eunuch; he traveled in Palestine, but the reasons for his journey and the details of his itinerary are lost. Most of his work is also lost. What little survives exists in quotations in the works of others or in fragments.

Eusebius preserves Melito's list of Old Testament scriptures, the first such list known to scholars, and fragments of his discourse recommending that Marcus Aurelius adopt Christianity as the religion of the Roman Empire.

Melito's best-known work is the Peri-Pascha, a Holy (Good) Friday sermon pieced together from manuscript fragments in the XX Century which shows parallels between Easter (the new passover) and the Passover haggadah.

Melito's contemporaries praise his skill in exegesis and comment on his ability to demonstrate parallels between the Old and New Testaments. His contemporaries also called Melito a prophet or a beacon, but his rhetorical style caused later writers to question the soundness of his theology, some of which seems to akin to the philosophy of the Stoics. Melito's work, which fell out of favor in the IV Century, influenced the thinking of Irenæus of Lyons, Clement of Alexandria, and Tertullian.