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Mendicity, evils of, 19. 25.
Mercurinus, or Auxentius the Younger,

Arian Bishop of Milan, 20. 44.
Metanoa, monastery of Canopus, 19.
31.

Milan, metropolis, 18. 10. Bishops be-
fore St. Ambrose, 18. 45. Chaunting,
18. 46.

Miracles, recorded by various authors;

by Paulinus, of St. Ambrose, 18. 19,
45; 19. 48; and 20. 20, 48. by St.
Ambrose and St. Austin, of the Re-
liques of St. Gervasius and St. Pro-
tasius, 18. 47. of the Reliques of the
Martyrs of Anagnia, 20. 22. of Pope
Damasus, 18. 33. by Sulp. Severus,
of St. Martin, 19. 59. of John of
Egypt, 19. 12. by Theodoret, of St.
Marcellus, 18. 39. by Cassian, of
Piammon, 20. 5. by St. Austin, of his
Mother, 18. 51. of St. Felix at Nola,
19. 57. by St. Gregory Nazianzen, of
himself, 19. 11. Cure of Innocentius
related by St. Augustine, 19. 37. at the
Eucharist, 20. 40.

Mithras, mysteries of, 19. 30.
Monks; in Spain, in the fourth century,

18. 35. Come to the relief of the
Antiochenes, 19. 4. defended by St.
Chrysostom, 19. 8. described by St.
Austin, 19. 17; compare 20. 5. In
cities, 19. 17. In Africa, 19. 65. St.
Jerome on the Monastic Life, 19. 56.
Eunapius complains of them, 19. 31.
Idle Monks, 20. 34; see ch. 29. Ac-
count of the Monks in Egypt, 20. 8.
Monastery founded by St. Martin, 20.
49. Monastic life adopted by Bishop
St. Eusebius of Vercellæ, 20. 18. and
retained by St. Augustine when or-
dained Priest, 19. 38. Monasteries at
Milan, 18. 52. praised by St. Au-
gustine, 19. 16. Law to check their
violent intercession, 19. 24; see 20.
41. Monastic life embraced by St.
Paulinus of Nola and St. Therasia,
19.53. contrasted with that of Clergy,
19. 56.

Monnica, St., mother of St. Austin, 18.
51. her anxiety for her son, 18. 49,
56. follows him to Milan, 18. 51.
Conversation with St. Austin at Ostia,
18. 56. and death. Her virtues, 18.
51.

Mortification, 20. 6.

Moses, an Egyptian Monk, 19. 7.

Multitude, the, to be gently treated in
correcting them, 19. 41.

Mysteries, work of St. Austin on, 18. 54.

N.

Nabor, St., Martyr, 18. 47.
Nazarius, St., reliques of, 20. 13.
Nebridius, friend of St. Austin, 18. 51.
Nectarius, Bishop of Constantinople,
18. 5. Consults at the third Council
of Constantinople the Novatian Bi-
shop, Agelius, 18. 26. His conduct
compared with that of St. Ambrose,
19. 15. abolishes the office of Peni-
tentiary Priest, 19. 23. His death, 20.
27.

Nesteros, Egyptian Monk, 20. 3.
Nicæa, Council of. Its Creed ratified at
Constantinople, 18. 6. and expanded.
Its Canons ratified, 18. 7. Its prin-
ciple followed there, ibid. What
women allowed to live with Clerks,
18. 35. Its prohibition as to the elec-
tion of Bishops, 20. 12.

Nile, the, rises higher in spite of the
destruction of the temple of Serapis,
19. 29.

Notes of the Church, 20. 23.
Novatians; at Nicæa and Constantinople,

18. 1, note b, and 26. divided by Sab-
batius, 18. 35. refused Penance after
Baptism, 19. 23.

Novatian Council of Sangara, 19. 35.
Numidius, African Bishop, at Council of
Aquileia, 18. 10.

O.

Oak, the, a village near Chalcedon,
where Ruffinus built a church, 19. 51.
Oblations, what refused, 20. 34; com-
pare 19. 21. for the dead, 19. 41.
Oceanus, friend of St. Jerome, 20. 50, 51.
Offices of St. Ambrose, 20. 17.
Olybrius, Consul A. D. 395, 19. 60.
Olympius, Spanish Bishop, 20. 48.
governor of Cappadocia, 18.

18.

Olympus, ring-leader of the seditious at
Alexandria, 19. 28.

Optatus, Donatist Bishop, 20. 29.
Ordination, of Bishops, 19. 22. Canons
of the third Council of Carthage, 20.
24. of the fourth, 20. 32. of the first
of Toledo, 20. 48. Rules of Pope
Siricius, 18. 35. Without passing
through inferior degrees, of Necta-
rius, 18. 5. of St. Augustine, 19. 38.
of St. Paulinus, 19. 57. without a
title, ibid. regular succession of de-
grees, 18. 35. age required, ibid.; see

20. 24. Ordination by heretical Bi-
shops, 19. 27; see 41. Compulsory, of
St. Augustine, 19. 38. of Paulinianus,
19. 43. of St. Paulinus, 19. 57.
Origen, errors of, 19. 44. Wherein he is
approved by St. Jerome, 20. 51. His
Principia translated by Ruffinus, ibid.
condemned by Pope St. Anastasius,
20. 52.

Orsiesius, St., third Abbot of Tabenna,
19. 31. and 20. 9.

Otreius, Bishop of Melitene, at Con-
stantinople, 18. 1.

Oxyrynchus, in Egypt, full of Monks,
20.9.

P.

Pachomius, death of St., 19. 31. and
20. 9.

Pagans; attempts against Christianity,

18. 31. their oracle against Chris-
tianity, 20. 42. See Idolatry and Laws.
Pagan account of external Chris-
tianity, 19. 30.

Palladius, an Arian Bishop, condemned
at Aquileia, 18. 10-16.

accused of Origenism, 19. 44.
once friend of St. Jerome; his history,
19. 46.

Pammachius, friend of St. Jerome, 20.
50, 51.

Pamphilus' defence of Origen, 20. 50.
Pansophius, a child revived by St. Am-
brose, 19. 48.

Paphnutius Bubalus, Egyptian Abbot,
20. 7.

Parish, παροικία, 18. 7.

Parmenianus, Donatist Bishop of Car-
thage, 19. 54. St. Austin's books
against him, 20. 46.

Pastor, Abbot at Scetis, 20. 1.

Paternus, Bishop of Braga, renounces
Priscillianism, 20. 48.

Patruinus, Bishop of Emerita, 20. 48.
Paul, St., of Constantinople; his re-
liques translated, 18. 9.

Egyptian Abbot, 20. 5.
Egyptian Monk, offered three hun-
dred prayers daily, 20. 9.
Paula, St.; her history, 18. 21. her
voyage, in Palestine, 18. 38. and
Egypt; she returns to Bethlehem,
ibid.

Paulina, daughter of St. Paula, 18. 21.
Paulinianus, brother of St. Jerome, 18.
36. ordained by St. Epiphanius, 19.
43; see 20. 50.
Paulinus, one of the Bishops of Antioch,
18.2, 3. acknowledged by the western
Church, 18. 19. visits Rome, ibid.
returns to Asia, 18. 22. Letter of
Pope Damasus to him, ibid. His
death, 19. 27.

Paulinus, Secretary and Biographer of
St. Ambrose, 18. 19. and 20. 20. Re-
lates miracles of St. Ambrose, 18.
19, 45; 19. 20, 48; and 20. 20, 48.
St., of Nola, 19. 55. Friend
of St. Austin and St. Jerome, ibid.
His panegyric on Theodosius, 19. 56.
ordained Priest, 19. 57. distributes
his property to the poor; unkindly
received by the Roman Clergy; re-
tires to Nola; and praised by St. Am-
brose, ibid. receives the reliques of
St. Nazarius and St. Celsus, 20. 13.
Pazus, Novatian Council at, 19. 35.
Pelagius, of Laodicea, at Constantinople,
18. 1, 9.

Penitents and Penitence. Rules of St.

Siricius, 18. 34. exhibited in the case
of Theodosius, 19. 21. In general in
the West, 19. 22. Penance of St.
Fabiola, 18. 21. Canons of St. Gre-
gory of Nyssa, 19. 52. Rules of the
third Council of Carthage, 20. 26. of
the fourth, 20. 33. of the fifth, 20. 43.
as to ordination, 18. 35. and 20. 43.
Penitentiary Priest, 19. 23.
Pentadia, wife of Timasius, 20. 36.
Pentecost, 19. 33. No genuflexion, and
hallelujah, 20. 45. See EASTER.
Persians, come to see St. Ambrose, 20.
19.

PERSON, used for SUBSISTENCE by St.
Greg. Naz., 18. 4. PERSONS in the
Blessed TRINITY, 18. 24.

Peter, St., Bishop of Sebaste, at Con-
stantinople, 18. 1.

Petilianus, St. Austin writes against, 20.
47.

Petronius, St., successor of St. Pacho-
mius, 19. 31. and 20. 9.
Philastrius, St., of Brixia, 18. 10.
Philosophers, of Antioch, compared with
the Monks, 19. 9.

Photinians, condemned at Constanti-
nople, 18. 6. called Bonosiacs, 19.
27.

Piammon, an Egyptian Abbot, at Diol-
cos, describes the kinds of Monks,
20. 5.

Pithecians, a kind of Arians, 19. 35.
Polemius, Deacon of St. Ambrose, 20.

21.

Pontinianus, friend of St. Augustine, the
occasion of his conversion, 18. 52.
Poor, high regard and care for, in St.
Ambrose, 18. 32. and 19. 27. Care of
St. Chrysostom for, 20. 39. errors as
to, 19. 25.

Pope, title applied specially to the Bishop
of Rome, 20. 48. Appeal to, granted
at Sardica, but the ancient right, per-
haps, resumed at Constantinople, 18.
7. First Bishop in dignity, ibid.
Flavian refuses to submit to his judg-

CC

ment, 19. 27. consulted, 20. 24. ap-
peal from him to universal Council,
20. 30.

Possessed. See Energumens.
Posthumus, St., Egyptian Abbot, 20. 9.
Prayer, for the dead, 19. 33. denied by
the heretic Aërius, 19. 36. On the
third, seventh, thirtieth, and fortieth
days, 19. 58. Forms of, 20. 26. at
night recommended to men by St.
Chrysostom, 20. 40. Prayer at night,
20. 3, 39.

Priest, Penitentiary, office of, abolished
at Constantinople and throughout the
East, 19. 23. Continence required in,
19. 22. See Continence and Clerks.
Ordination of, 20. 32.
Primianus, Donatist Bishop, 19. 54.
Principia, Virgin, 18. 20.

Priscillianists, 18. 30. Death of Pris-
cillian, ibid. honoured as a Martyr
by his followers, ibid. In Gallicia,
20.48. Did not consume the Element
in the Eucharist, ibid. held the SON
to be innascibilis, ibid.

Proba, Faltonia, 19. ult.
Probinus, Consul in 395, 19. ult.
Probus, Anicius, a noble Roman and
Christian, 19. ult. His family, ibid.
Proculus, Bishop of Marseilles, at Aqui-
leia, 18. 10.

Protasius, St., Invention of Reliques of,
18. 47.

Providence, Books of St. Chrysostom on,
19. 9.

Province, or Επαρχία, 18. 7.

Psalms, chaunting of, among the Monks,
20. 8. at Milan, 18. 46.
Psathyrians, a sect of Arians, 19. 35.
Pynufius, an Egyptian Abbot, visited
by Cassian, 20. 4.

Q.

Quadragesima, 20. 6.
Quartodecimans, 18. 8.

R.

Readers, required to marry or profess
continence, 20. 26.

Reliques of St. Andrew, St. John Baptist,
St. Thomas, St. Luke, 20. 22. of St.
Gervasius and St. Protasius, 18. 47.
and 20. 22. of St. Meletius, 18. 2. of
St. Paul of Constantinople, 18. 9. of
St. John the Baptist, 19. 29; see too
19. 49. Miracles wrought through
Rel ques; see Miracles. of St. Vitalis
and St. Agricola, 19. 48. of St. Na-
zarius, 20. 13; see note o. at Brixia
and Milan, of the Martyrs of Anaunia,

20. 22. of St. Martin, 20, 49. Euna-
pius speaks of them, 19. 31. Pre-

tended, 20. 34, and 19. 48.
Renunciations necessary for a Solitary,
20. 7.

Residence of Ecclesiastics, 20. 25.
Riches, exhortations of St. Chrysostom
concerning, 20. 40.

Rogatists, a sect of Donatists in Mauri-
tania Cæsariensis, 19. 53.

Rogatus, father of St. Paula, 18. 21.
Romanianus, friend of St. Augustine,
18. 51. and 20. 13. Father of Licen-
tius, 19. 55.

Rome, Principatus of, 18. 47. and 20. 30.
Council at, under Damasus, 18. 19.
another, under Siricius, against Jo-
vinian, 19. 19. confirmation of a sen-
tence awaited from Rome, 20. 48.
Ruffing, daughter of St. Paula, 18. 21.
Ruffinus of Aquileia, on account of his
Origenism, 19. 44. estranged from
St. Jerome, 19. 46. In Palestine from
A. D. 373, ibid. returns to Rome
A. D. 397, 20. 50. translates Origen's
Tepl ȧpxwv, ibid. controversy with
St. Jerome, 20.51. Letter to, 20. 52.
and condemnation by Anastasius, 20.
50. Translates Eusebius' History,

and adds two books, 20. 51.

Master of the Offices, 19. 21.
Prætorian Præfect, 19. 51. Baptized,
ibid. His death, 20. 10.

S.

Sabbath, always means Saturday, 19.
33. and 20. 8, 20. a festival, 20. 20.
Monks assembled on, 20. 8. Eucharist
then received, 20. 45.

Sabbatius, author of a Schism among
the Novatians, 19. 35. and 20. 10.
Sabellians, condemned at Constantinople,
18. 6.

Sabinus, Bishop of Placentia, at Aqui-
leia, 18. 10.

Sacraments, more than two, ace. St. Au-
gustine, 20. 45. Their grace denied
by heretics, 19. 25. Sacrament of the
Catechumens, 20. 26.

not affected by the worthi-
ness of the Minister, 20. 46.
Saints. See Intercession. Divine honour
seemed to pagans to be paid them,
19. 31. St. Paula venerates tombs of
the Saints, 18. 37; see 19. 31.
Salvina, daughter of Gildo, 20. 29.
Sanctuary, the, in a Church reserved for
Clergy, 19. 15.

limited, 19. 34. Violation of,
punished, 20. 15. Law against, 20.
36.
Sangara, Novatian Council at, 19. 35.

Sarabaites, false Monks, 20. 5.
Sarmatis, lapsed Monk, 20. 18.
Saturday. See Sabbath.

Scythians, converted through St. Chry-
sostom, have but one Bishop, 18. 7.
and 20. 41.

Secundianus, an Arian Bishop, at Aqui-
leia, 18. 10. condemned, 18. 15.
Selinas, Bishop of the Goths, 19. 35.
Semi-Arians, or Pneumatomachi, con-
demned at Constantinople, 18. 6.
Separation from the wicked, when re-
quired, 20. 46.

Serapion, an Egyptian Monk, 20. 7.
Serapis, temple and idol of, 19. 28.
Destruction of the temple of, 19. 29.
Serenus, Egyptian Abbot, 20. 7.
Severus, a blind man cured at the Re-
liques of St. Gervasius, 18. 47.
Severus Sulpicius, Biographer of St.
Martin, 20. 49.

Sida, Council of, against the Massalians,
19. 26.

Simplician, St., instructs St. Austin, 18.
51. Bishop of Milan, 20. 21.
Siricius, St., election of, approved by the
Emperor, 18. 33. His decretal to
Himerius, 18. 34. His death, 20. 50.
Sisinnius, Reader of the Novatians, con-
sulted by Nectarius, 18. 26. Novatian
Bishop of Constantinople. 20. 10.

St., Martyr at Anaunia, 20. 22.
His reliques at Brixia, ibid.
Soldiers declare for St. Ambrose, 18. 41.
SON, the, in what sense inferior to the
FATHER, 18. 14. See WORD. Be-
gotten, yet of the same Nature with
the FATHER, 18. 23. Hath human
nature of the Blessed Virgin, 18. 24.
His human nature perfect, ibid. Not
innascibilis, 18. 48.

Sophronius, an Ecclesiastical author, 19.
29.

Soul, on the quantity of the, by St. Au-
gustine, 19. 18. How it is of God,
19. 39.

Stageirius, friend of St. Chrysostom,
19. 9.

Statues of Theodosius, &c. overthrown
at Antioch, 19. 1.

Stelechius, friend of St. Chrysostom,
19. 9.

Stilicho, made by Theodosius guardian
of his sons, 19. 58.

Subdeacon, ordination of, 20. 33.
Suffecta, in Africa, 20. 42. Martyrs
there, ibid.

Sunday. See LORD's Day.
Superstitions, complained of by St.
Austin, 19. 17.

Syagrius, Bishop of Verona, reproved by
St. Ambrose, 20. 16.
Symbol of Constantinople, 18. 6. com-
pared with the Nicene, ibid.

Symmachus, Pagan Senator, deputed by
the Pagans, 18.31. Memorial on Altar
of Victory, ibid. Appeals to Pope
Damasus, 18. 33. punished by Theo-

dosius, 19. 15. His character of Theo-
dosius, 19. 59.

Symposius, Spanish Bishop, abjures Pris-
cillianism, 20. 48.

Synagogue at Callinicus, burnt, 19. 14.
Syrus, Abbot of Chnum, 20. 9.

T.

Tabenna, monastery of, 20. 9.
Talida, Amma or Abbess in Egypt,
20. 9.

Taor, Virgin, in Egyptian monastery,
20. 9.

Temples, Idolatrous, not pulled down by
Constantine, 18. 38. closed in the
East by Theodosius, ibid. to be de-
stroyed without tumult, 20. 42.
Temple of Jupiter miraculously de-
stroyed by St. Marcellus of Apameia,
18. 39. Fanum of the Valentinians,
19. 14. Temple of Serapis destroyed,
19. 29. Temples in Egypt destroyed,
19. 30. Temple of Cœlestis at Car-
thage, 20. 42.

Thecue, Monks of, martyred by Sara-
cens, 20. 7.

Themistius, the Sophist, orations of,
19. 59.

Theoctistus, Ψαθυροπώλης, whence the
name of the Psathyrian sect of Arians,
19. 35.
Theodorus, Abbot at Cellæ; introduced
into the Collations of Cassian, 20. 7.
one of the successors of St.
Pachomius at Tabenna, 20. 9.

Consul, 20. 42. Colleague of
Eutropius, 20. 37. praised by St. Au-
gustine and Claudian, ibid.

Bishop of Oxyrynchus, at-
taches himself to George, Arian Bi-
shop of Alexandria, 20. 9.

Bishop of Octodurum, at the
Council of Aquileia, 18. 10.

saved from lapsing into a
secular life by his friend, St. Chry-
sostom, 19. 9. becomes Bishop of
Mopsuestia, ibid. at the Council of
Constantinople in A. D. 394, and at
that time a Catholic, 19. 51; see
note i.
Theodosius, the Great, assembles the
Ecumenical Council of Constanti-
nople, A. D. 381, 18. 1, 8. recognises
St. Meletius there from having seen
him in a vision, ibid. fixes on Nec-
tarius to succeed St. Meletius, 18. 5.
tries to conciliate the Macedonians,
18. 6. uses his civil power to establish

the Canons of the Church, 18. 9.
His Laws, for the Church, against
Idolatry, Apostates, Jews, Manichees,
Arians; for Indulgence of Criminals,
Discipline, Reliques, &c. See Laws.
Letter to him from Council of Aqui-
leia, 18. 16. defends the proceedings
of the Eastern Church in a letter to
the western Bishops, 18. 17. Sum-
mons a second Council at Constanti-
nople, A. D. 382, 18. 18. a third,
A. D. 383, 18. 26. Receives the
Creed of the Consubstantiality, ibid.
passes laws against heretics at the
instance of St. Amphilochius, 18. 27.
His embassy to Maximus, 18. 38.
His statues overthrown at Antioch,
19. 1. pardons the Antiochenes on
the intercession of Flavian, 19.6. He
takes part with Valentinian, against
Maximus, 19. 10. goes to Thessa-
lonica, ibid. Consults St. John of
Egypt, 19. 12. defeats Maximus'
forces in Pannonia, 19. 13. Spends
the winter, A. D. 398-399, at Milan,
19. 14. St. Ambrose intercedes for
some Monks, ibid. His testimony to
St. Ambrose's character, 19.15. Cle-
mency to Symmachus, ibid. goes to
Rome, ibid. Massacre at Thessa-
lonica; his return to Milan, 19. 20.
PENANCE OF THEODOSIUS, A. D. 390,
19. 21. The part he took in the
Schism of Antioch, 19. 27. prepares
to avenge the murder of Valentinian,
19. 34. War against Eugenius and
Arbogastes, 19. 47. Vision of St. John
and St. Philip; his victory, 19. 49.
abstains from the Mysteries after
battle; divides his empire between
Arcadius and Honorius, 19. 50. de-
fends Flavian, ibid. Death of Theo-
dosius, A. D. 395, 19. 58. St. Am-
brose delivers his funeral oration,
ibid. His character, 19. 59. Impe-
tuosity of, 19. 21. Respect for St. Ar-
senius, 20. 1.

Theodulus, Secretary to St. Ambrose;
Bishop of Modena, 20. 17.
Theognistus, Bishop, publicly condemns
the Ithacians, 18. 59.
Theonas, Egyptian Abbot, quits his wife
against her consent; introduced into
the Collations, 20. 6.

Theophilus, Bishop of Alexandria, suc-
ceeded Timothy, A. D. 385, 18. 36.
Exertions to overthrow Idolatry in
Egypt, 19. 28-30. Wishes to pro-
mote Isidore to the See of Constan-
tinople, but is compelled to ordain
St. Chrysostom, 20. 27. Visits St. Ar-
senius, 20. 2.

Theophronius, at the head of a division
of the Eunomians, 19. 35.

Theotocos, Mother of GOD, the title of
the Blessed Virgin, 18. 24.
Therasia, St., wife of St. Paulinus of
Nola, 19. 55.

Thessalonica, sedition at, where Botheric
was killed, 19. 20. Massacre there in
consequence, by order of Theodosius,
ibid.

Tiberianus, a Spaniard and Priscillianist,
18. 30.

Tichonius, a Donatist, condemned by his
sect, 20. 46.

Timasius, condemned through the en-
mity of Eutropius, 20. 36.
Timothy, Bishop of Alexandria, succes-
sor of Peter, and before Theophilus,
18. 36. At the Council of Constan-
tinople, 18. 3. His Canonical Epistle,
18. 36. Molested by the Eastern
Church, 18. 16.

Tithes, paid by Christians, 20. 6.
Toledo, First Council of, 20. 48.
Tome of the West, 18. 8.

Toxotius, son of St. Paula, 18. 21.
Tradition, Apostolic, 20. 45.
Translations of Reliques. See Reliques.
of Bishops forbidden, 20.

24, 32; see 18. 3.
TRINITY, the BLESSED, taught by St.
Gregory at Constantinople against the
Arians, 18. 4. Doctrine concerning,
declared by the first Council of Con-
stantinople, 18. 6. by the second, 18.
18. by the third, 18. 26. The doc-
trine attested by miracle, 18. 47.
True religion consists in the adoration
of, 19. 37.

Trygetius, friend of St. Augustine, 18.

53.

Tyrannus. Priest of Saturn; his im-
purities, 19. 30.

U. & V.

Vagrants, able to work, law against,
18. 21.

Valens of Petavio, an Arian Bishop,
18. 10.

Valentinian I., suffered the Altar of
Victory to remain, 18. 31.

II., the Younger, sends St.
Ambrose on embassy to the usurper
Maximus, 18. 28. addressed by Sym-
machus in behalf of Paganism, 18. 31.
Dissuaded by St. Ambrose, 18. 32, 33.
Misled by his mother Justina, to per
secute St. Ambrose, 18. 41. For his
laws, see Laws. Favours Arianism,
18. 43. sends St. Ambrose again to
Maximus, 18. 57. flies before Maxi-
mus to Thessalonica, A. D. 387, and
obtains the help of Theodosius, A. D.
388, who rescues him from Arianism,

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