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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. "
A New Universal Biography: Forming the first volume of series - Seite 247
von John Platts - 1825
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Band 3

Edward Gibbon - 1804 - 502 Seiten
...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,...
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A New Universal Biography, Containing Interesting Accounts, Band 2

John Platts - 1825 - 702 Seiten
...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...
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Fortunes of Faith; Or, Church and State: A Poem

Thomas Hornblower Gill - 1841 - 166 Seiten
...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...
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Researches Into the Ecclesiastical and Political State of Ancient ..., Band 2

Francis Thackeray - 1843 - 354 Seiten
...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...
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The Hierarchical Despotism: Lectures on the Mixture of Civil and ...

George Barrell Cheever - 1844 - 206 Seiten
...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...
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New General Biographical Dictionary, Band 10

Hugh James Rose - 1848 - 528 Seiten
...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...
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Lectures explanatory of the Diatessaron, or the history of our Lord and ...

John David Macbride - 1848 - 1080 Seiten
...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,...
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The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with notes ..., Band 3

Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 504 Seiten
...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,...
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A MANUAL OF ANCIENT HISTORY

M. E. THALHEIMER - 1872 - 392 Seiten
...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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A Manual of Ancient History

Mary Elsie Thalheimer - 1872 - 424 Seiten
...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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