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Priscillianist
Priscillianist Pris*cil"lian*ist, n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Priscillian, bishop of Avila in Spain, in the fourth century, who mixed various elements of Gnosticism and Manicheism with Christianity.

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- and Aquitaine held a synod at Zaragoza in 380. Though summoned, the Priscillianists refused to appear. The synod pronounced sentence of excommunication...
- were celibate, or, if married, continent. Certain practices of the Priscillianists are known through the condemnatory canons issued by the 380 synod,...
- Prophecy into many smaller categories, one of which was Priscillianists. Epiphanius defined a Priscillianist as having particular reverence for Priscilla as a...
- Kirche, I, 633), that Priscillianists are to be understood by this mention of Manichæans, although probably Priscillianists were at times called Manichæans...
- Spain through a certain Mark from Memphis. St. Jerome states that the Priscillianists were infected with it. The Thomasine Traditions refers to a group of...
- Gallo-Roman religion, but he opposed the violent ****cution of the Priscillianist sect of ascetics. His life was recorded by a contemporary hagiographer...
- Manichaeism, Gnosticism, the Adamites, the Donatists, the Pelagians and Priscillianists. In 438, under Emperor Theodosius II, the Codex Theodosi**** (Theodosian...
- of Saint Martin of Braga the Suebi in Iberia renounced the Arian and Priscillianist heresies during two synods held here in the 6th century. It is also...
- early Middle Ages. The Suebi remained mostly pagan, and their subjects Priscillianist until an Arian missionary named Ajax, sent by the Visigothic king Theodoric...
- one of his followers. Many early Vulgate m****cripts contain a set of Priscillianist prologues to the gospels. The Latin biblical texts in use before Jerome's...