Note 188 — Chapter V · PERSECUTION.
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Sulp. Sever. Hist. Sacræ II. 47-51; Ejusd. Dial. III. 11-13.—Prosp. Aquitan. Chron. ann. 385-6.—St. Martin could hardly have anticipated that a time would come when a pope would cite the murder of Priscillian as an example to be followed in the case of Luther; and, in spite of Maximus’s excommunication by St. Ambrose, characterize him as one of the “veteres ac pii imperatores.” (Epist. Adriani PP. VI. Nov. 15, 1522 ap. Lutheri Opp. T. II. fol. 538 a.)