Origen
a father of the Church, and one of the most learned ecclesiastical writers; was born in Alexandria, 185 A.
D., of Christian parents, who instructed sciences. He became cate him in religious knowledge and in the of the Christian school of Alexandria.
He became sciences. He became catechist, or head From Alexandria he went to Rome, where he began his famous "Hexapla," an edition of the Hebrew Bible with five Greek versions of it. He returned to Alexandria, and was ordained. Soon after this, he began his "Commentaries on the Scriptures." His great talents and popularity exposed him to the jealousy of the bishop, whose persecutions at length drove him from his native country, and made him a wanderer. Origen is supposed to have died in Tyre about the year 254.