AQUARIANS. - Heretics who appeared in the 2nd century, who substituted water for wine in the celebration of the Eucharist. This practice was common among the Ebionites and the followers of Marcion and of Tatian. Few Catholics adhered to it. Clement of Alexandria (Strom., I, 19) and St. Cyprian (Epist., LXIII) rose up against this abuse.

In the 4th century the A. drew close to the Manichaeans, who considered wine as a poison administered by the prince of darkness. They were therefore condemned together with them by the emperor Theodosius I (Codex Theod., XVI, tit. V). By contrast, the Armenians fell into the opposite error: they suppressed entirely the use of water in the Mass and drew upon themselves the condemnation of the Council "in Trullo" in 692 (can. 32), in which it was declared deposed anyone who did not mix water with the wine for the consecration.

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BIBL.: J. Hardouin, Acta Concil., III, Paris 1715, pp. 1172-73; G. Bareille, s. v. in DThC., I, col. 1724; P. Batifol, s. v. in DACL, I, coll. 2648-54.

Antonio Giamboni

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