...continued to practice their superstition and to preserve their celebrity till the twelfth century. At the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century Mariolatry, or the worship of the Blessed Virgin Mary, arose, though it did not then obtain the importance...

...Neo-Platonic views are shared by Nemesius, bishop of Emesa, in Phoanicia, who lived, it is probable, towards the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century. In his work De Naturu Hominis, he combats the doctrine of the creation of souls on the ground that...

...all the more grateful to the bishop as it was a personal blow to his enemy. Such was Alexandria at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century, when Christianity was in conflict with paganism ; in the latter half of the fifth century it was as...

...very foundation of the Church as laid by our Lord. Mr. Allies produces a passage from one writer of the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century, whose witness being that of one who had been in contact with various parts of the Church, has a special...

...the neuter. In the Latin church the earliest distinct testimony for the neuter is St. Augustine at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century. From that time forward the neuter gained ground in the Western Church till it altogether supplanted...

...for the neuter. In the Latin Church the earliest distinct testimony for the neuter is S. Augustine at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century. From that time forward the neuter gained ground in the Western Church till it altogether supplanted...

...have foreseen in him the future dangerous enemy of Christianity. To the Fathers of the Greek Church at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century we must add him who for his eloquence was called the golden-mouthed, St. John Chrysostom (847 — 407)....

...have foreseen in him the future dangerous enemy of Christianity. To the Fathers of the Greek Church at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century we must add him who for his eloquence was called the golden-ruouthed, St. John Chrysostom (347 —...

...by the conflict between the bishops of Vienne and Aries and Massilia as to ecclesiastical privileges about the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century, in which the ancient ecclesiastical authority of Vierne was repressed by the importance of outstanding...

...and intellectual, the civil and religious, state of society in Gaul prior to the German invasion, at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the fifth century (L. 2-6); then the dispositions, the manners, and institutions of the Germans before they began to...