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Barbatianus

BARBAZIANO

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BARBATIANUS. - A Milanese monk from the time of St. Ambrose. He left the monastery founded by the Saint in Milan to take refuge in Vercelli, from where he spread the heterodox doctrines of Jovinian against virginity and fasting. St. Ambrose, rightly fearing that such propaganda might turn the virgins of Vercelli away from their vows and the ascetics from their penances, hastened to write to the faithful of that church a letter (LXIII, 20-21) in which he inveighs with vehement words against B. He repeatedly calls him a disciple of Epicurus, the apologist of pleasure, whom the philosophers have rightly expelled from their society. It is not known what his end was.

Bibliography

BIBL.: P. De Labriolle, in Storia della Chiesa di A. Fliche-V. Martin, III, trad. ital. di A. P. Frutaz, Torino (1940), p. 372.

Ireneo Daniele

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By Ireneo Daniele

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II (1949), col. 823.

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Chicago

Daniele, Ireneo. “Barbaziano.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, col. 823. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/barbaziano.

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Daniele, Ireneo. “Barbaziano.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. II, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 823. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/barbaziano.

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@incollection{ec2_barbaziano,
  author    = {Daniele, Ireneo},
  title     = {Barbaziano},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {II},
  pages     = {823},
  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/barbaziano}
}

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