 | James P. Gilchrist - Dueling - 1821 - 404 pages
...fourth century. This prelate, as the story is related, before his promotion to the episcopal order, had married a wife, who loved him tenderly, and who, unwilling...constancy of his wife's affection : and it was rumoured, that the holy man, though a bishop, persisted, in opposition to the canonical laws, to taste the sweets... | |
 | James P. Gilchrist - Dueling - 1821 - 406 pages
...fourth century. This prelate, as the story is related, before his promotion to the episcopal order, had married a wife, who loved him tenderly, and who, unwilling...constancy of his wife's affection : and it was rumoured, that the holy man, though a bishop, persisted, in opposition to the canonical laws, to taste the sweets... | |
 | Johann Lorenz Mosheim - Church history - 1826 - 580 pages
...quit him after his advancement, continued to sleep in the same chamber with her spouse. The sapctity of Simplicius suffered, at least in the voice of fame,...the constancy of his wife's affection ; and it was rumored that the holy man, though a bishop, persisted in opposition to the ecclesiastical canons to... | |
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... with Alwyn, Bishop of Winchester. The first account we have of the appeal of Christians to the " Fire Ordeal," as a proof of their innocence, is that of Simplicius, Bishop of Autun, who lived in the fourth century. This prelate, as the story is related,... 