"being and being known as a Christian"

"Although he possessed many important honors, his own first claim to dignity consisted in being and being known as a Christian."

     St. Gregory of Nazianzus, Funeral oration On his brother, St. Caesarius 10, trans. McCauley, FC 22 (Funeral orations (Washington, DC:  Catholic University of America Press, 1953)), 12.  Cf. "Their sole enjoyment in their children was that they be known as Christ's and called His" (4, p. 7).  This is, if memory serves, a theme of St. Gregory's.