{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>27. With regard to the aforesaid bishop of Bagai, in consequence\r\nof his claim being allowed in the ordinary courts,\r\nafter each party had been heard in turn, in a basilica<a id=\"FNanchor_1227_1227\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1227_1227\">[1227]</a> of\r\nwhich the Donatists had taken possession, as being the property\r\nof the Catholics, they rushed upon him as he was standing\r\nat the altar, with fearful violence and cruel fury, beat\r\nhim savagely with cudgels and weapons of every kind, and at\r\nlast with the very boards of the broken altar. They also\r\nwounded him with a dagger in the groin so severely, that the\r\neffusion of blood would have soon put an end to his life, had\r\nnot their further cruelty proved of service for its preservation;\r\nfor, as they were dragging him along the ground thus\r\nseverely wounded, the dust forced into the spouting vein\r\nstanched the blood, whose effusion was rapidly on the way to\r\ncause his death. Then, when they had at length abandoned\r\nhim, some of our party tried to carry him off with psalms;\r\nbut his enemies, inflamed with even greater rage, tore him\r\nfrom the hands of those who were carrying him, inflicting\r\ngrievous punishment on the Catholics, whom they put to\r\nflight, being far superior to them in numbers, and easily inspiring\r\nterror by their violence. Finally, they threw him into<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_503\">[Pg 503]</a></span>\r\na certain elevated tower, thinking that he was by this time\r\ndead, though in fact he still breathed. Lighting then on a\r\nsoft heap of earth, and being espied by the light of a lamp\r\nby some men who were passing by at night, he was recognised\r\nand picked up, and being carried to a religious house,\r\nby dint of great care, was restored in a few days from his\r\nstate of almost hopeless danger. Rumour, however, had carried\r\nthe tidings even across the sea that he had been killed\r\nby the violence of the Donatists; and when afterwards he\r\nhimself went abroad, and was most unexpectedly seen to be\r\nalive, he showed, by the number, the severity, and the freshness\r\nof his wounds, how fully rumour had been justified in\r\nbringing tidings of his death.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","A TREATISE CONCERNING THE CORRECTION OF THE DONATISTS; FORMING EPISTLE 185 IN MIGNE'S EDITION OF AUGUSTINE'S WORKS."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-781"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7d43743dc08a4652969c103b1dbe3135eb10cf881add9d7806b498c92f7fdd41","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_1227_1227","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. Title leaves identify J. R. King, T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1872; catalog identifies translator John Richard King (1835-1907). Gutenberg credits Internet Archive/American Libraries without an exact scan identifier. Full provider license preserved with acquired original; republication and per-work metadata remain unreviewed.","source_anchor":"Footnote_1227_1227","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_1227_1227\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1227_1227\"><span class=\"label\">[1227]</span></a> The basilica of Fundus Calvianensis. See <i>C. Crescon.</i> iii. c. 43.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_1227_1227","text_sha256":"4e4fbebb1edb17e63473682d4895294196594b42701cc16142e407d5fc643656","verified":false,"work_id":null}