Patrick Craig Truglia is an active layman whose education was in history and education, earning an MA at Columbia University and BA at SUNY Geneseo (NY) where he became a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He conducts historical research, produces apologetics, and performs missionary work in Cambodia. His main areas of expertise are particularly in the history of Marian dogma and the ecclesiology of the pre-schism Church. Truglia is academically published in the subjects of historical philosophy and theology including "Original Sin in The Byzantine Dormition Narratives" Revista Teologica, Issue 4 (2021): 5-30 and "Al-Ghazali and Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola On the Question of Human Freedom and the Chain of Being" Philosophy East and West, Issue 60:2 (2010): 143-166. He is also published popularly by Uncut Mountain Press with his book The Rise and Fall of the Papacy and with the blessing of the dean of the chancery of Southeast Asia for the Moscow Patriarchate wrote the introduction to a Khmer and Thai translation of Saint Maximus' Life of the Virgin.