 | Edward Gibbon - 1804 - 502 sider
...associates, reserved for. his rival and colleague Maximus, the first, t among the Christian princes, who shed the blood of his Christian subjects, on account of their religious opinions. The cause of the Priscillianists,*1 a recent sect of heretics, who disturbed the provinces of Spain,... | |
 | John Platts - 1825 - 702 sider
...cruelties, but was at last besieged in Aquileia by the emperor Theodosius. His soldiers delivered him up to Theodosius, who caused him to be beheaded, in...his merit to the second rank in the army, and the titfe of count, under the emperor Gratian, and after his death engaged in the service of Valentinian... | |
 | Thomas Hornblower Gill - 1841 - 166 sider
...rather usurper Maximus, was (in the words of Gibbon, cap. 27.) the first among the Christian princes who shed the blood of his Christian subjects on account of their religious opinions ! Priscilian, bishop of Avila, in Spain, who held Gnostic sentiments, was with six of his followers... | |
 | Francis Thackeray - 1843 - 354 sider
...persecution to its utmost bounds. He seems, indeed, to have been the first among Christian Princes who shed the blood of his Christian subjects on account of their religious opinions. Although no ancient writer has given an accurate account of the doctrines of Priscillian, they seem... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1844 - 206 sider
...fullest extent, was reserved for his rival and colleague Maximus, the first among the Christian princes who shed the blood of his Christian subjects on account of their religious opinions. Since the death of Priscilian, the rude attempts at persecution have been refined and methodized in... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - 1848 - 528 sider
...orders, dragged him away, and stiuck off his head, AD 388. His son Victor met with a like fate in Gaul. Maximus is stigmatized as the first Christian prince...Christian subjects on account of their religious opinions. MAXIMUS, (Petronius,) a short-lived emperor of the West in the fifth century, was a Roman of noble... | |
 | John David Macbride - 1848 - 1080 sider
...tendency, A. D 385, at Treves, under the authority of the Emperor Maximus, the first of Christian Princes who shed the blood of his Christian subjects on account of their religious opinions, and he is considered, apparently with reason, the first Martyr to religious dissent. On this occasion,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 504 sider
...reserved lor his »w«:i«ie«, rival and colleague, Maximus, the first among the Christian princes who shed the blood of his Christian subjects on account of their religious opinions. The cause of the Priscillianists,81 a recent sect of heretics who disturbed the provinces of Spain,... | |
 | M. E. THALHEIMER - 1872 - 392 sider
...nothing more than fines and civil disabilities; but his contemporary, Maximus, is said to have been the "first Christian prince who shed the blood of his Christian subjects for their religious opinions." The power and dignity of the Church at this time is shown by the conduct... | |
 | Mary Elsie Thalheimer - 1872 - 424 sider
...nothing more than fines and civil disabilities ; but his contemporary, Maximus, is said to have been the "first Christian prince who shed the blood of his Christian subjects for their religious opinions." The power and dignity of the Church at this time is shown by the conduct... | |
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... reserved for his rival and colleague, Maximus, the first, among the Christian princes, who shed the blood of his Christian subjects on account of their religious opinions. 
