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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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-
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.
Quadragesima, 20. 6. Quartodecimans, 18. 8.
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.
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.
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.
Tyrannus. Priest of Saturn; his im- purities, 19. 30.
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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