 | James De Pui - 1873 - عدد الصفحات: 316
...reign of this Christian emperor, and his colleague Maximus was the first among the Christian princes who shed the blood of his Christian subjects on account of their religious opinions. It was Theodosius who authorized the Christians of the established religion to assume the name of Catholic.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 672
...extent, was reserved foi 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. The cause of the Priscillianists,*1 a recent sect of heretics, who disturbed the provinces of Spain,... | |
 | William Maxwell Blackburn - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 752
...Maximus a promise that their lives should be spared. But they were beheaded. So Maximus, the usurper, was "the first Christian prince who shed the blood of...subjects on account of their religious opinions." The Christian Church generally viewed the act with horror. St. Martin and Ambrose, of Milan, broke... | |
 | Sir James Henry Ramsay (bart.) - 1898 - عدد الصفحات: 608
...Priscillian, Bishop of Avila in Spain. It is worthy of note that " the first among Christian princes who shed the blood of his Christian subjects on account of their religious opinions " was a Spaniard. With his convictions Maximus may have regarded an attack on Valentinian II. in the... | |
 | Sir James Henry Ramsay - 1898 - عدد الصفحات: 608
...Priscillian, Bishop of Avila in Spain. It is worthy of note that " the first among Christian princes who shed the blood of his Christian subjects on account of their religious opinions " was a Spaniard. With his convictions Maximus may have regarded an attack on Valentinian II. in the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1907 - عدد الصفحات: 418
...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. The cause of the Pris. cillianists," a recent sect of heretics, who disturbed the prov. 10 They always... | |
 | Charles Harris - 1914 - عدد الصفحات: 668
...was (AD 385) 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" (Gibbon, c. xxvii.). 1 The persecution of the Priscillianists by Maximus was reprobated by St. Martin... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1916 - عدد الصفحات: 1006
...extent, was reserved for his rival and colleague, Maximus,* the first, amon^ the Christian princes, who shed the blood of his Christian subjects on account of their religious opinions. The cause of the Priscillianists,"3 a recent sect of heretics, who disturbed the provinces of Spain,... | |
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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. 
