Untitled - Shattering Denial

CHAPTER III
THIRD PERIOD.
FROM 1 1 oo TO 1250
THE REVIVAL OF THE MANICHEAN HERESIES IN THE
MIDDLE AGES
FROM the sixth to the eleventh century, heretics, with
the exception of certain Manichean sects, were hardly ever
persecuted. 1
In the sixth century, for instance, the
Arians lived side by side with the Catholics, under the
protection of the State, in a great many Italian cities,
especially
in Ravenna and Pavia. 2
During the Carlovingian period,
we come across a few
heretics, but they gave little trouble.
The Ado-ptianism of Elipandus, Archbishop
of Toledo,
and Felix, Bishop of Urgel, was abandoned by its authors,
i In 556, Manicheans were put to death at Ravenna, in accordance with
ecclesia Ravennatis, cap.
the laws of Justinian. Agnelli liber pontificate
Ixxix, in Monum. Germanic, Rerum Langobard. Scriptores, p. 331.
2"Hujus temporibus pene per omnes civitates regni ejus (Rotharici) duo
episcopi erant, unus catholicus et alter arianus. In civitate Ticinensi usque
nunc ostenditur ubi arianus episcopus apud basilican Sancti Eusebii residens
baptisterium habuit. cum tamen ecclesise catholicae alius episcopus resideret."
Pauli diacon., Histor. Langobard., lib. iv, cap. xlii, Mon. Germ., Rer. Lango
bard. SS., p. 134. We may still visit at Ravenna the Arian and Catholic
baptisteries of the sixth century. Cf . Gregorii Magni Dialogi, iii, cap. xxix,
Mon. Germ., ibid., pp. 534-535-
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