Achaia
place · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
a town of Achaia
in the texts
Stromata
A region cited as a place where the faith had already abounded.
"But having hope, as your faith increases, to be magnified among you according to our rule unto abundance, to preach the good news to the parts beyond you" — not meaning the extension of the preaching according to place (since he himself says that the faith abounded even in Achaia,
Letters to Lucilius
Roman province in Greece where Gallio fell ill.
I had on my lips the saying of my master Gallio, who, when he had begun to have a fever in Achaia, immediately went aboard ship, crying out that the sickness belonged not to his body but to the place.
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber
A region in Greece, identified as the location of a town with consecrated virgins devoted to Juno.
We know the virgins of Vesta, and of Juno at a town of Achaia, and of Apollo at Delphi, and of Minerva and Diana in certain places.
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum
Region of Greece containing Corinth, listed among places with apostolic churches.
run through the apostolic Churches, in which the very chairs of the apostles still preside in their own places, in which their own authentic letters are recited, sounding the voice and representing the face of each one.