Chapter V
.—
Of Lucifer
and Eusebius.
About
the same time Lucifer and
Eusebius
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were by an imperial order, recalled from banishment out of the Upper
Thebaïs; the former being bishop of Carala, a city of Sardinia,
the latter of Vercellæ, a city of the Ligurians in Italy, as I
have said
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previously. These two prelates therefore consulted together on the most
effectual means of preventing the neglected canons
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and discipline of the church from being in future violated and
despised.
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Theodoret,
H. E.
III, 4, mentions Hilarius,
Astenius, and some other bishops who were at this time recalled from
exile by Julian’s edict, and joined Lucifer and Eusebius in these
deliberations about restoring the authority of the canons and
correcting abuses in the church.
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Cf. II. 36.
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More especially the canons of the Council of
Nicæa.