• Priscillian (in Latin: Priscillianus; Gallaecia, c. 340 – Augusta Treverorum, Gallia Belgica, c. 385) was a wealthy nobleman of Roman Hispania who promoted...
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  • Priscillianism was a Christian sect developed in the Roman province of Hispania in the 4th century by Priscillian. It is derived from the Gnostic doctrines...
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    Metzger and others. Priscillian was probably a Sabellianist or Modalist Monarchian. Some interpreters have theorized that Priscillian created the Comma...
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    leader, Priscillian. The First Council of Saragossa had forbidden several of Priscillian's practices (albeit without mentioning Priscillian by name)...
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    Vol. 8. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Chadwick, Henry (1976). Priscillian of Avila. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-826643-3. Cervantes...
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    of heresy by the Emperor, the first Christian heretic to be executed, Priscillian, was condemned in 386 by Roman secular officials for sorcery, and put...
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    Although the Suebi and Visigoths were initially followers of Arianism and Priscillianism, they adopted Catholicism from the local inhabitants. St. Martin of...
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  • Collyridianism Dualism Ebionites Euchites Gnosticism Manichaeism Paulicianism Priscillianism Naassenes Ophites Sethianism Valentinianism Iconoclasm Luciferianism...
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  • execution of Priscillian and his followers may be cited as typical of the treatment of heretics, and conditions in that time. In 384, Priscillian was condemned...
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    "Stone" or lapis itself is informed by early Christian allegory, such as Priscillian (4th century), who stated, Unicornis est Deus, nobis petra Christus,...
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  • Cerdonians Mandaeism Kentaeans Naassenes Nicolaitans Ophites Perates Priscillianism Quqites Seleucians Sethianism Simonians Valentinianism Bardaisanites...
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  • bishop of Rome Hyginus of Córdoba, 4th-century bishop and opponent of Priscillian Hyginus, a crater on the Moon Pseudo-Hyginus (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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    him to communion with the Church. When the Spanish bishop and ascetic Priscillian, accused by his fellow bishops of heresy, was executed by Emperor Magnus...
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    millennium saw only one single official extermination of a heretic, the Priscillian case. Classical canon law viewed apostasy as distinct from heresy and...
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    felt that any means was justified in repressing Arian belief. In 385, Priscillian, a bishop in Spain, was the first Christian to be executed for heresy...
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  • Delphine Seyrig as the prostitute Jose Berzosa as Priscillian's head deacon Jean-Claude Carrière as Priscillian Augusta Carrière as the crucified nun Jean-Daniel...
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    Trier from around 386 to 398. His episcopate was marked by the trial of Priscillian and his followers and their subsequent execution for heresy and witchcraft...
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    held in Toledo in the years 400 and 527 to discuss the conflict with Priscillianism. In 546 (or possibly earlier), Visigoth rulers installed the capital...
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    Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 16 February 2021. Chadwick, Henry (1976), Priscillian of Avila, Oxford University Press Fletcher, Richard A. (1984), Saint...
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  • First Council of Toledo (category Priscillianism)
    Archbishop Patronus with its primary purpose to condemn the Priscillian heresy, to receive back Priscillians, and uphold the Nicene Creed. Eighteen other Hispanic...
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  • proclaiming the primacy of Rome and the priestly obligation of celibacy. Priscillian, Spanish bishop, is accused of Manichaeism and magic, and beheaded at...
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  • Gaul passed through three crises in the late Roman period, Arianism, Priscillianism and Pelagianism. Under Merovingian rule, a number of "Frankish synods"...
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  • certain Mark from Memphis. Jerome was of the opinion that Priscillian, the founder of Priscillianism, was influenced by "the heresy of Basilides". The descriptions...
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  • Although the Suebi and Visigoths were initially followers of Arianism and Priscillianism, they adopted Catholicism from the local inhabitants. St. Martin of...
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    a follower of Priscillian and part of the tiny Christian community that was exiled here from Spain by Emperor Maximus for Priscillianism.[citation needed]...
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  • Saragossa is held; Spanish and Aquitanian bishops condemn the teachings of Priscillianism. Aelia Eudoxia, empress and wife of Arcadius (approximate date) Alexius...
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    existence of an old Christian holy place, has been sometimes attributed to Priscillian, although without further proof. Santiago's economy, although still heavily...
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    catholic First Council of Braga, which dealt with the old problem of the Priscillianism heresy. Eight years after, in 569, king Theodemir called the First Council...
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    and the death penalty for heretics. The Spanish ascetic and theologian Priscillian was accused of magic and libertinage, and excommunicated in 380. He was...
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  • 'criminalization' of heresy by the emperor, the first Christian heretic, Priscillian, was executed in 385 by Roman officials. For some years after the Protestant...
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