Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Eusebius of Vercell was a bishop and saint in Italy. Along with Athanasius, he affirmed the divinity of Jesus against Arianism. Born in Sardinia, he was a lector in Rome before he became the first bishop in Vercelli, probably sometime in the early- to mid-340s. According to a letter of Ambrose to the congregation in Vercelli two decades after Eusebius' death, the local leaders recognized his piety and thus elected him rather than local candidates. At some point he led his clergy to form a monastic community modelled on that of the Eastern cenobites. For this reason the Canons Regular of St. Augustine honor him along with Augustine as their founder.