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letter from Jerome to Paulinus, and at various places where he stopped on the way he appears to have expressed himself about Jerome in a manner that when reported gave great offence to that father, and provoked him to write a reply (Ep. 61). Vigilantius now settled for some time in Gaul, and is said by one authority (Gennadius) to have afterwards held a See also:

charge in the See also:

DIOCESE (formed on Fr. diocese, in place of the Eng. form diocess—current until the 19th century—from Lat. dioecesis, med. Lat. variant diocesis, from Gr. Swucio•tc, " house-keeping," " administration," &miceas, " to keep house," " to govern ")

diocese of See also:

BARCELONA

Barcelona. About 403, some years after his return from the See also:

East, Vigilantius wrote his celebrated work against superstitious practices, in which he argued against relic See also:

WORSHIP (i.e. " worth-ship," O. Eng. weor8scipe)

worship, as also against the vigils in the basilicas of the martyrs, then so See also:

COMMON

common, the sending of See also:

ALMS

alms to See also:

Jerusalem, the rejection of earthly goods and the attribution of See also:

SPECIAL

special virtue to the unmarried See also:

state, especially in the See also:

case of the See also:

clergy. He thus covers a wider range than Jovinian, whom he surpasses also in intensity. He was especially indignant at the way in which spiritual worship was being ousted by the See also:

ADORATION (Lat. ad, to, and os, mouth; i.e. " carrying to one's mouth ")

adoration of See also:

SAINTS, BATTLE OF THE

saints and their See also:

RELICS (Lat, reliquiae, the equivalent of the English " remains " in the sense of a dead body)

relics. All that is known of his work is through Jerome's See also:

TREATISE

treatise Contra Vigilantium, or, as that controversialist would seem to prefer saying, " Contra Dormitantium." Notwithstanding Jerome's exceedingly unfavourable See also:

OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion, there is no See also:

REASON (Lat. ratio, through French raison)

reason to believe that the See also:

TRACT (from Lat. tractare, to treat of a matter, through Provencal tractat and Ital. trattato)

tract of Vigilantius was exceptionally illiterate, or that the views it advocated were exceedingly "heretical." Soon, however, the great See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of Jerome in the Western See also:

Church caused its leaders to espouse all his quarrels, and Vigilantius gradually came to be ranked in popular opinion among heretics, though his influence See also:

long remained potent both in See also:

France and Spain, as is proved by the polemical tract of Faustus of Rhegium (d. c.

490).

End of Article: VIGILANTIUS (fl. c. 400)

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