On This Day in Ancient History - September 10:
In A.D. 422 Celestine (I) was elected pope, a position he kept until April 6, 432. He opposed the Nestorians, Pelagians, and puritanical Novatians, who opposed forgiving apostates. On the urging of Patriarch Cyril of Alexandria, Celestine convoked the Council of Ephesus [see Ecumenical Councils] to fight the position of Nestorius, bishop of Constantinople. Nestorius supported the idea that Mary was the Christbearer (Christotokos), rather than the Godbearer (Theotokos). Christ means 'anointed', as in the savior of mankind, but it doesn't signify divinity.
Celestine may have sent St. Patrick as a missionary to Ireland.
The Ludi Romani continued.
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wow. The novatian heresy, as I just happened to read about recently in The Age of The Martyrs, is another heresy the early church addressed that could do with a credited expose’. The hijinks in North Africa with the novations with skeletons in the closet was a great story. I was thinking of the Novatains during McCAin nomination speech. Hero status versus you failed your peers stand up and move on. Tells you something about ancient history, no?
Are you talking about The Age of Martyrs, by Giuseppe Ricciotti? I haven’t read it — just Googled it.