By Peter M.J. Stravinskas, Catholic World Report - Most of the bishops went into that Council as Arians; it was the indefatigable persistence of Athanasius that changed the course of events... Our saint of the day, Athanasius of Alexandria, was probably born in that city between 296 and 298 A.D... It was in that city that, centuries earlier, Jewish scholars rendered the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek, giving us the Septuagint text, used by all the authors of the New Testament. Athanasius had a stellar education, fluent in both Greek and Coptic—although he admits ignorance of Hebrew.