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254 Lives of the Saints. [Nov. h.
of Martin reached the ears of the count, and impatient at
the delay and denials of the slaves, he sprang from bed, and
ran down to the entrance, opened the door, and found the
old bishop with his white hair lying on his doorstep, his
hands stretched forth in supplication. The count was
moved, he raised the aged prelate. " Do not even speak,"
he said, " I know thy request. Every prisoner shall be
spared. I grant them their lives and liberty at thy unspoken
petition."
He rises to even a grander height in his conduct to Ithacius
at Treves. Martin went thither, where was the Emperor
Maximus, and a crowd of bishops assembled to ordain a successor to Britto, bishop of Treves, and to consult about the
matter of the Priscillianists (384). After the council of Sara-
gossa in 380, in which Priscillian had been condemned, the
two Priscillianist bishops, Salvian and Justantius, had made
Priscillian bishop of Avila. Priscillian, a well-born and
eloquent Spaniard, had adopted a strange compound of
various errors originally brought into Spain from Egypt. Its (
chief elements were:—Pantheism, the essential divinity of
the human soul; Sabellianism, the Son only a power;
Docetism, hence a fast was kept on Sunday; Fatalism ;
Astrology; Pre-existence of souls,—their previous sins
punished by their detention in bodies; man's body the
devil's work; marriage condemned ; the resurrection of the
body denied. Idacius, and another prelate named Ithacius,
who is described by Sulpicius as having " nothing of holiness" about him, procured the exile of the heretics. The
Emperor Gratian suffered them to return. Ithacius denounced them to Maximus, who referred the case to a
council at Bordeaux. Priscillian was there permitted to
appeal to Maximus. At the Court of Treves, where Maximus was an object of abject adulation to a crowd of bishops,
" Martin alone among them all," says his biographer, " pre-
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| Title | The lives of the saints - 13 |
| Creator | Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine) |
| Publisher | J. Grant |
| Place of Publication | Edinburgh |
| Date | 1914 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000304 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | ——ft 254 Lives of the Saints. [Nov. h. of Martin reached the ears of the count, and impatient at the delay and denials of the slaves, he sprang from bed, and ran down to the entrance, opened the door, and found the old bishop with his white hair lying on his doorstep, his hands stretched forth in supplication. The count was moved, he raised the aged prelate. " Do not even speak," he said, " I know thy request. Every prisoner shall be spared. I grant them their lives and liberty at thy unspoken petition." He rises to even a grander height in his conduct to Ithacius at Treves. Martin went thither, where was the Emperor Maximus, and a crowd of bishops assembled to ordain a successor to Britto, bishop of Treves, and to consult about the matter of the Priscillianists (384). After the council of Sara- gossa in 380, in which Priscillian had been condemned, the two Priscillianist bishops, Salvian and Justantius, had made Priscillian bishop of Avila. Priscillian, a well-born and eloquent Spaniard, had adopted a strange compound of various errors originally brought into Spain from Egypt. Its ( chief elements were:—Pantheism, the essential divinity of the human soul; Sabellianism, the Son only a power; Docetism, hence a fast was kept on Sunday; Fatalism ; Astrology; Pre-existence of souls,—their previous sins punished by their detention in bodies; man's body the devil's work; marriage condemned ; the resurrection of the body denied. Idacius, and another prelate named Ithacius, who is described by Sulpicius as having " nothing of holiness" about him, procured the exile of the heretics. The Emperor Gratian suffered them to return. Ithacius denounced them to Maximus, who referred the case to a council at Bordeaux. Priscillian was there permitted to appeal to Maximus. At the Court of Treves, where Maximus was an object of abject adulation to a crowd of bishops, " Martin alone among them all," says his biographer, " pre- ft ■ ft |
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