entity_id,period_id,confidence,rationale,source_id,review_status ENT_BAPTISM,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_CHRR_BOSOM_ABRAHAM,PER_PATRISTIC,high,Lukan parable; patristic/medieval identification with Limbus Patrum.,SRC_CATECHISM_CC,reviewed ENT_CHRR_HEAVEN,PER_PATRISTIC,high,Core Christian eschatology (CCC 1023–1029). No prior Christian-tradition Heaven realm existed in the DB.,SRC_CATECHISM_CC,reviewed ENT_CHRR_HELL,PER_PATRISTIC,high,"Christian eschatology (CCC 1033–1037). Distinct from Jewish Gehenna/Sheol (ENT_JM_GEHENNA, ENT_ISR_SHEOL), to which it is the conceptual heir.",SRC_CATECHISM_CC,reviewed ENT_CHRR_NEW_JERUSALEM,PER_PATRISTIC,high,Apocalyptic vision (Rev 21); developed as the City of God by Augustine.,SRC_AUGUSTINE_CITY_OF_GOD,reviewed ENT_CHR_ABADDON,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_CHR_AGNES,PER_PATRISTIC,A,"Patristic-era Christian figure (the divine persons, the Revelation cast, the early martyrs).",,reviewed ENT_CHR_ANGELS,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_CHR_ANTICHRIST,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_CHR_APOLLYON,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_CHR_ARCHANGELS,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_CHR_BARBARA,PER_PATRISTIC,A,"Patristic-era Christian figure (the divine persons, the Revelation cast, the early martyrs).",,reviewed ENT_CHR_BEAST,PER_PATRISTIC,A,"Patristic-era Christian figure (the divine persons, the Revelation cast, the early martyrs).",,reviewed ENT_CHR_BEELZEBUL,PER_PATRISTIC,A,"Patristic-era Christian figure (the divine persons, the Revelation cast, the early martyrs).",,reviewed ENT_CHR_BEHEMOTH,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_CHR_CECILIA,PER_PATRISTIC,A,"Patristic-era Christian figure (the divine persons, the Revelation cast, the early martyrs).",,reviewed ENT_CHR_CHERUBIM,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_CHR_CHRISTOPHER,PER_PATRISTIC,A,"Patristic-era Christian figure (the divine persons, the Revelation cast, the early martyrs).",,reviewed ENT_CHR_DEMONS,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_CHR_DEVIL,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_CHR_DOMINIONS,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_CHR_DRAGON_REVELATION,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_CHR_FALSE_PROPHET,PER_PATRISTIC,A,"Patristic-era Christian figure (the divine persons, the Revelation cast, the early martyrs).",,reviewed ENT_CHR_FOUR_HORSEMEN,PER_PATRISTIC,A,"Patristic-era Christian figure (the divine persons, the Revelation cast, the early martyrs).",,reviewed ENT_CHR_GOD_FATHER,PER_PATRISTIC,A,"Patristic-era Christian figure (the divine persons, the Revelation cast, the early martyrs).",,reviewed ENT_CHR_GUARDIAN_ANGELS,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_CHR_HOLY_SPIRIT,PER_PATRISTIC,A,"Patristic-era Christian figure (the divine persons, the Revelation cast, the early martyrs).",,reviewed ENT_CHR_LAWRENCE,PER_PATRISTIC,A,"Patristic-era Christian figure (the divine persons, the Revelation cast, the early martyrs).",,reviewed ENT_CHR_LEGION,PER_PATRISTIC,A,"Patristic-era Christian figure (the divine persons, the Revelation cast, the early martyrs).",,reviewed ENT_CHR_LEVIATHAN,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_CHR_MAMMON,PER_PATRISTIC,A,"Patristic-era Christian figure (the divine persons, the Revelation cast, the early martyrs).",,reviewed ENT_CHR_MARGARET,PER_PATRISTIC,A,"Patristic-era Christian figure (the divine persons, the Revelation cast, the early martyrs).",,reviewed ENT_CHR_MARTIN,PER_PATRISTIC,A,"Patristic-era Christian figure (the divine persons, the Revelation cast, the early martyrs).",,reviewed ENT_CHR_PERPETUA,PER_PATRISTIC,A,"Patristic-era Christian figure (the divine persons, the Revelation cast, the early martyrs).",,reviewed ENT_CHR_POWERS,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_CHR_PRINCIPALITIES,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_CHR_SEBASTIAN,PER_PATRISTIC,A,"Patristic-era Christian figure (the divine persons, the Revelation cast, the early martyrs).",,reviewed ENT_CHR_SERAPHIM,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_CHR_STEPHEN,PER_PATRISTIC,A,"Patristic-era Christian figure (the divine persons, the Revelation cast, the early martyrs).",,reviewed ENT_CHR_THECLA,PER_PATRISTIC,A,"Patristic-era Christian figure (the divine persons, the Revelation cast, the early martyrs).",,reviewed ENT_CHR_THRONES,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_CHR_VIRTUES,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_CHR_WHORE_BABYLON,PER_PATRISTIC,A,"Patristic-era Christian figure (the divine persons, the Revelation cast, the early martyrs).",,reviewed ENT_DESERT_ARSENIUS,PER_PATRISTIC,high,"c.354-450; Roman senatorial tutor who fled to the desert of Scetis, abba famed for radical silence and stillness; prominently attested in the Apophthegmata Patrum.",SRC_WARD_SAYINGS,reviewed ENT_DESERT_CASSIAN,PER_PATRISTIC,high,"c.360-435; studied among the Egyptian desert monks, then transmitted their teaching to Latin monasticism through his Institutes and Conferences (Collationes); a key conduit of Evagrian thought to the West.",SRC_WARD_SAYINGS,reviewed ENT_DESERT_EVAGRIUS,PER_PATRISTIC,high,"345-399; monk of the Kellia/Nitria, systematizer of desert ascetic teaching (Praktikos, Chapters on Prayer), originator of the eight evil thoughts later reworked as the seven deadly sins; condemned in the Origenist controversies.",SRC_WARD_SAYINGS,reviewed ENT_DESERT_FATHERS,PER_PATRISTIC,high,"Collective hub for the abbas and ammas of 4th-5th c. Egyptian/Palestinian desert monasticism, whose sayings are preserved in the Apophthegmata Patrum (Sayings of the Desert Fathers).",SRC_WARD_SAYINGS,reviewed ENT_DESERT_MACARIUS,PER_PATRISTIC,high,"c.300-391; abba of the desert of Scetis, disciple of Anthony; one of the most heavily represented abbas in the alphabetical Apophthegmata Patrum.",SRC_WARD_SAYINGS,reviewed ENT_DESERT_MOSES_BLACK,PER_PATRISTIC,high,"c.330-405; former brigand turned abba of Scetis, exemplar of repentance and humility; attested in the Apophthegmata Patrum (Abba Moses). Homonym of the Israelite prophet Moses (ENT_ISR_MOSES) — distinct figure.",SRC_WARD_SAYINGS,reviewed ENT_DESERT_PACHOMIUS,PER_PATRISTIC,high,"c.292-348; founder of cenobitic (communal) monasticism in the Egyptian Thebaid, author of the first monastic Rule; attested in his Lives (Bohairic/Greek) and the Apophthegmata tradition.",SRC_WARD_SAYINGS,reviewed ENT_DESERT_PAMBO,PER_PATRISTIC,high,"c.303-373; abba of Nitria, teacher associated with Macarius and the Tall Brothers; noted for measured speech and gravity; attested in the Apophthegmata Patrum.",SRC_WARD_SAYINGS,reviewed ENT_DESERT_PAUL_THEBES,PER_PATRISTIC,high,"c.227-341 per tradition; reputed first Christian hermit of the Egyptian desert, known chiefly through Jerome's Vita Pauli; traditionally visited and venerated by Anthony near his death.",SRC_WARD_SAYINGS,reviewed ENT_DESERT_POEMEN,PER_PATRISTIC,high,"4th-5th c. abba of Scetis; the single most heavily quoted father in the alphabetical Apophthegmata Patrum, a touchstone for the editing of the collection.",SRC_WARD_SAYINGS,reviewed ENT_DESERT_SARAH,PER_PATRISTIC,high,"4th-5th c. desert amma; one of the three women included in the alphabetical Apophthegmata Patrum, famed for resisting the demon of fornication. Homonym of the matriarch Sarah (ENT_ISR_SARAH) — distinct figure.",SRC_WARD_SAYINGS,reviewed ENT_DESERT_SISOES,PER_PATRISTIC,high,d. c.429; abba who settled on Anthony's inner mountain after Anthony's death; exemplar of penthos (compunction) in the Apophthegmata Patrum.,SRC_WARD_SAYINGS,reviewed ENT_DESERT_SYNCLETICA,PER_PATRISTIC,high,"c.270-350; desert amma of Alexandria, one of the three women in the alphabetical Apophthegmata Patrum; subject of a Life attributed to (Pseudo-)Athanasius.",SRC_WARD_SAYINGS,reviewed ENT_DESERT_THEODORA,PER_PATRISTIC,high,"4th-5th c. desert amma; one of the three women in the alphabetical Apophthegmata Patrum, associated with Archbishop Theophilus of Alexandria in her sayings.",SRC_WARD_SAYINGS,reviewed ENT_HERX_ARIUS,PER_PATRISTIC,high,"Alexandrian presbyter (c.256-336) whose teaching that the Son was created and subordinate to the Father was condemned at Nicaea (325); attested in Athanasius, Socrates Scholasticus, and Pelikan.",SRC_PELIKAN_CT,reviewed ENT_HERX_DONATUS,PER_PATRISTIC,high,Bishop of Carthage (d. c.355) and eponym of the Donatist schism over the validity of sacraments administered by traditores; attested in Pelikan.,SRC_PELIKAN_CT,reviewed ENT_HERX_EUTYCHES,PER_PATRISTIC,high,Constantinopolitan archimandrite (c.380-456) whose teaching of a single divine nature in Christ was condemned at Chalcedon (451); attested in Pelikan.,SRC_PELIKAN_CT,reviewed ENT_HERX_MONTANUS,PER_PATRISTIC,high,"2nd-c. Phrygian founder of the New Prophecy (Montanism), an ecstatic prophetic movement condemned for novel revelation; attested in Eusebius and Pelikan.",SRC_PELIKAN_CT,reviewed ENT_HERX_NESTORIUS,PER_PATRISTIC,high,Patriarch of Constantinople (c.386-450) condemned at Ephesus (431) for teaching two distinct persons in Christ and rejecting Theotokos; attested in Pelikan.,SRC_PELIKAN_CT,reviewed ENT_HERX_PELAGIUS,PER_PATRISTIC,high,"British ascetic (c.354-418) who denied original sin's bondage of the will, condemned at Carthage (418) and Ephesus (431); chief antagonist of Augustine, attested in Pelikan.",SRC_PELIKAN_CT,reviewed ENT_HERX_PRISCILLIAN,PER_PATRISTIC,high,"Bishop of Avila (d. 385), ascetic teacher executed for heresy/sorcery, first Christian put to death by the state for heterodoxy; attested in Sulpicius Severus and Pelikan.",SRC_PELIKAN_CT,reviewed ENT_HERX_SABELLIUS,PER_PATRISTIC,high,"Early 3rd-c. teacher of modalist monarchianism (the Father, Son, and Spirit as modes of one person), eponym of Sabellianism; attested in Hippolytus and Pelikan.",SRC_PELIKAN_CT,reviewed ENT_JESUS_CHRIST,PER_PATRISTIC,A,"Patristic-era Christian figure (the divine persons, the Revelation cast, the early martyrs).",,reviewed ENT_MISSION,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_MONASTICISM,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_PAT_AMBROSE,PER_PATRISTIC,high,"Bishop of Milan (c. 339-397), one of the four Latin Doctors; baptizer of Augustine, attested by Paulinus's Vita.",SRC_FARMER_SAINTS,reviewed ENT_PAT_AUGUSTINE,PER_PATRISTIC,high,"Bishop of Hippo (354-430), one of the four Latin Doctors; attested by his own Confessions and City of God and by Possidius's Vita.",SRC_QUASTEN_PATROLOGY,reviewed ENT_PAT_CHURCH_FATHERS,PER_PATRISTIC,high,"Collective hub for the Patristic Doctors and Apostolic Fathers (c. 1st-8th c.); a standard category in Christian tradition (Quasten's Patrology), not a single historical person.",SRC_QUASTEN_PATROLOGY,reviewed ENT_PAT_CLEMENT_ALEX,PER_PATRISTIC,high,"Titus Flavius Clemens (c. 150-215), head of the Alexandrian catechetical school; attested by his Protrepticus, Paedagogus, and Stromata and by Eusebius.",SRC_QUASTEN_PATROLOGY,reviewed ENT_PAT_CYPRIAN,PER_PATRISTIC,high,"Bishop of Carthage (c. 210-258), martyr; attested by his own letters and treatises and by the Acta proconsularia.",SRC_QUASTEN_PATROLOGY,reviewed ENT_PAT_CYRIL_ALEX,PER_PATRISTIC,high,"Patriarch of Alexandria (c. 376-444), Doctor of the Church; leading figure at the Council of Ephesus (431), attested by his letters and dogmatic works. Distinct from existing Cyril and Methodius in the DB.",SRC_QUASTEN_PATROLOGY,reviewed ENT_PAT_GREGORY_NYSSA,PER_PATRISTIC,high,"Bishop of Nyssa (c. 335-395), one of the three Cappadocian Fathers, younger brother of Basil; attested by his theological and ascetical corpus. Distinct from existing Gregory the Theologian (Nazianzen) and Gregory Palamas in the DB.",SRC_QUASTEN_PATROLOGY,reviewed ENT_PAT_HILARY_POITIERS,PER_PATRISTIC,high,"Bishop of Poitiers (c. 310-367), Doctor of the Church, called 'the Athanasius of the West'; attested by his De Trinitate and by Jerome.",SRC_QUASTEN_PATROLOGY,reviewed ENT_PAT_IRENAEUS,PER_PATRISTIC,high,"Bishop of Lyons (c. 130-202); author of Against Heresies, attested by that work and by Eusebius.",SRC_IRENAEUS_AH,reviewed ENT_PAT_JEROME,PER_PATRISTIC,high,"Priest and scholar (c. 347-420), one of the four Latin Doctors; attested by his own letters and prefaces and by Gennadius.",SRC_QUASTEN_PATROLOGY,reviewed ENT_PAT_JUSTIN_MARTYR,PER_PATRISTIC,high,"Greek apologist (c. 100-165), martyr; attested by his First and Second Apologies, the Dialogue with Trypho, and the Acts of his martyrdom.",SRC_QUASTEN_PATROLOGY,reviewed ENT_PAT_ORIGEN,PER_PATRISTIC,high,"Alexandrian exegete (c. 184-253); foundational but later partly condemned, attested by Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History and his own surviving works.",SRC_QUASTEN_PATROLOGY,reviewed ENT_PAT_TERTULLIAN,PER_PATRISTIC,high,"Carthaginian writer (c. 155-220), first major Latin Christian author; later a Montanist, attested by his own corpus and by Jerome.",SRC_QUASTEN_PATROLOGY,reviewed ENT_REC_HECATE_PATRISTIC,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Patristic authors begin recasting Hecate as demonic in 2nd–5th c. CE.,, ENT_SAINT_ANTHONY_ABBOT,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_SAINT_BENEDICT,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_SAINT_BLAISE,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_SAINT_CATHERINE_ALEX,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_SAINT_COSMAS_DAMIAN,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_SAINT_DUNSTAN,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_SAINT_ELOI,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_SAINT_FRANCIS,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_SAINT_GABRIEL_CHR,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_SAINT_GEORGE,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_SAINT_JOHN_BAPTIST,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_SAINT_JOSEPH,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_SAINT_LUCY,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_SAINT_MARY,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_SAINT_MARY_MAGDALENE,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_SAINT_MICHAEL_CHR,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_SAINT_NICHOLAS,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,, ENT_SAINT_PAUL,PER_PATRISTIC,medium,Christian entities attested in patristic literature and early Christian texts (1st–5th c. CE).,,