We start calling the bishops of Rome – the popes of Rome. Priscillian of Avila offers us an example of the challenges of the rising ascetical movement as bishop fights against bishop in Spain.
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Photo of Gold-glass depiction of Jonah and the whale by Anne-Marie Bouché
More on Priscillian.
Various New Testament Apocrypha, including those that Priscillian would have used.
About the so-called Epistle of Saint Paul to the Laodiceans
Map of the Roman provinces in Hispania at the time of Priscillian. Priscillian and his main support was found in Spanish Galicia/Gallaecia.
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#382 – A History of the Catholic Church – The Problem of Priscillian – Part I