Do the saints see God? If so, how? A question-and-answer text of the later medieval period explores this question in the form of a dialogue between St Basil the Great and St Gregory Nazianzen, part of the expansive reception of the Cappadocian Fathers and their legacy in Byzantium. Translation by Nathan Porter.

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"It is not the sponsors but the coming of the Spirit that illumines and sanctifies the infants." In this short tenth-century text, John III Polites offers a rationale for the Orthodox practice of communing infants, whose purity and innocence entitles them to be nourished by the body and blood of Christ.