For itwas in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians after the Lord’s ascension, as we read in the Acts of the Apostles:7 and certain houses were afterwards called by the new names of hospices8 and monasteries[1][FONT="] [/FONT]
7 Acts xi. 26.
8 Xenodochia, houses of entertainment for strangers.
[1]Schaff, P. (1997). The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Vol. VII. St. Augustin: Homilies on the Gospel of John, Homilies on the First Epistle of John Soliloquies. (376). Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems.