| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The Catholic Encyclopedia is quoted as saying that Mithraic services were conduced by fathers" and that the chief of the fathers, a sort of pope, who always lived at Rome, was called 'Pater Patratus.' Freke and Gandy add their own idea: Like Christians, Mithraic initiates called each other brother [Frek.JM, 67].
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