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Alexander, Carbonarius (Alexandros ho Anthrakeus), flourished in the third century.
To avoid the dangers of a handsome person, he disguised himself and lived as a
coal-heaver at Cumae, in Asia Minor. The see of this city being vacant, the people
asked St. Gregory Thaumaturgus to come and ordain them a bishop. He rejected many
who were offered for consecration, and when he bade the people prefer virtue to
rank, one in mockery cried out, " Well, then ! make Alexander, the coal-heaver,
bishop!" St. Gregory had him summoned, discovered his disguise, and having arrayed
him in sacerdotal vestments, presented him to the people, who, with surprise and
joy, accepted the appointment. He addressed their in homely but dignified phrase,
and ruled the church till the Decian persecution, when he was burnt, A. D. 251
(S. Greg. Nyssen. Vit . S. Greg. Thaumaturg. 19, 20).
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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