Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. II, 1949 Heresies & schisms

Artotyrites

ARTOTIRITI

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ARTOTYRITES. - An ancient Eastern sect, so called because its adherents used bread (ἄρτος) and cheese (τυρός) in the celebration of their mysteries. The few notices we have of it come from ecclesiastical writers of the 4th and 5th centuries: St. Epiphanius is the first to mention it in his Panarion, 2, 49 (PG 41, 880), followed by Philastrius of Brescia (Liber de haeresibus, § 74: PL 12, 1186), by St. Augustine (De haeresib. liber, § 28: PL 42, 30) and by St. Jerome (In epist. ad Galatas, 2, 2: PL 26, 382), who commonly agree in connecting it with Montanism and in locating its presence in Galatia and the surrounding regions. Modern rationalist criticism has wanted to see, wrongly, an a. in St. Perpetua (cf. P. de Labriolle, s.v. in DHG, IV, coll. 825-27).

Mario Scaduto

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II (1949), coll. 70–71.

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Scaduto, Mario. “Artotiriti.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, coll. 70–71. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/artotiriti.

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Scaduto, Mario. “Artotiriti.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, coll. 70–71. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/artotiriti.

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@incollection{ec2_artotiriti,
  author    = {Scaduto, Mario},
  title     = {Artotiriti},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {II},
  pages     = {70--71},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1949},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/artotiriti}
}

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