 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1804 - 502 pages
...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 - Biography - 1825 - 706 pages
...cruelties, but was at last besieged in Aquileia by the emperor Theodosius. His soldiers delivered bin* up to Theodosius, who caused him to be beheaded, in...his merit to the second rank in the army, and the title of count, under the emperor Gratian, and after his death engaged in the service of Valentinian... | |
 | Thomas Hornblower Gill - 1841 - 166 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1843 - 354 pages
...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 - Church and state - 1844 - 206 pages
...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 - Biography - 1848 - 528 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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,... | |
 | Mary Elsie Thalheimer - History, Ancient - 1872 - 424 pages
...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... | |
 | M. E. THALHEIMER - 1872 - 392 pages
...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. 
