Athanasius of Alexandria, Canonical letters. Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 14 (Percival, 1900), public domain.
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- Canonical letters 1: The Epistle of St. Athanasius to the Monk Ammus — Involuntary nocturnal pollutions are not sinful, [I add to Johnson the exact words of the Saint. “For what sin or uncleanness can any natural excrement have in itself? Think of the absurdity of making a sin of the…vatican.va
- Canonical letters 2: The Epistle of the Same Athanasius Taken from the XXXIX. Festal Epistle — [Johnson’s epitome is so unsatisfactory that I have been compelled to relegate it to a footnote and to make one in its room of my own.]vatican.va
- Canonical letters 3: The Epistle of St. Athanasius to Ruffinian — It has been determined by synods in Greece, Spain, France, that they who have fallen, or been leaders of impiety [Arianism], be pardoned upon repentance, but that they have not the place of the clergy; but that they…vatican.va