Defender of the faith, hero of Christianity, banished, assaulted, cursed, forced into hiding, but never relenting, the rock on which Arianism was crushed. His life can be summoned in a conversation with a friend who warned him that everyone was against him, the bishops, priests and the emperor himself. “The whole world is against you, Athanasius,” the friend said, to which Athanasius replied: “Athanasius Contra Mundum,” I am against the world.
