- SABAOTHSome of the Gmostie sects indulged ina rather complicated mythology, and without much knowledge of the language, had rec
- SABAS(1), ST., Apr. 24, a Gothic officer, martyred at Rome, with seventy others, under Aurelian. (AA. SS. Boll. 24 April. iii
- SABAZIUSa Phrygian deity, under whom the Fathers recognised Jupiter. In the mysteries connected with his cult, variously called
- SABBATIANI[Saszartus (2).] SABBATIUS (1), Sep. 19, martyr with
- SABBATIUS(2), a Novatianist presbyter, ordained by Marcianus as Novatianist bishop of Constantinople. He seceded, previous to 380
- SABELLIANISMis the Eastern name for the movement designated Patripassianism in the West. It formed a portion of the great Monar-
- SABELLIUSgave the name to the sect of the Sabellians which lasted till the middle of the 5th cent. at least, as their baptism is
- SABIANS(SaBeANns, SABEITES, ZABIANS, SsaBiAns, SUBHAS, ManpAmANs, MrnDrans,
- SABINA(1), POPPAEA, empress, second wife of Nero. Just as in the case of certain members of the Flavian family it can be asser
- SABINIANAan aged deaconess, probably of the church of Antioch, who, careless of her advanced years and infirmities, had started f
- SABINIANUS(1), martyr at Troyes under Aurelian (Vid. D. C. A. and Tillem, iv. 347). [(C. H.]
- SABINUS(1), prefect of Egypt under the,
- SACCOPHORIa subdivision of the Manichean sect, which cultivated the solitary life. They are denounced, under pain of capital punis
- SACERDONheretic in the list of Sophronius (Mansi, Concil. xi. 499), doubtless transcriber's error for CeRDON. This interchange i
- SACERDOS(1), a youthful presbyter of Caesarea, brother of Thecla, for whom, as for his sister, Gregory Nazianzen felt no common
- SACLASFor this name in the Ophite system see Heppomas, Vol. II. p. 850. From the Ophites the name was borrowed by the Manichea
- SADOSH(Sapost, Saporu, SAapust, Scnaposr, Scraaposr), tenth catholicus of Seleucia on the Tigris, succeeded his uncle, Simeon
- SADWEN(4), abbat of the abbey of St. Docunni, in South Wales (Lib. Land. by Rees, 888-459). As witness to Gwidnerth's grant of
- SAETHRYTHqueen, attesting a charter of Ethelbald king of Mercia in 734. (Kemble, C. D. 78.) [C. H.}
- SAEWARDking of the East Saxons. See SEXRAED. Saeward was the father of Sigebert
- SAFFARACUS18th bishop of Paris, present at the 5th council of Orleans in 549, and soon afterwards was deposed for some crime at th
- SAFRIDAmother of Sr. FripEswiDA.
- SAGARISOct. 6, bishop and martyr at - Laodicea, mentioned by Polycrates in his letter " to Victor of Rome (Euseb. 77. 2. y. 24)
- SAGITTARIUS7th bishop of Gap, was a brother of Salonius, 10th bishop of Embrun. The two were notorious for their crimes in the time
- SAHADUNASsecond bishop of Mahuza, a city of the Garmaei, abjured Nestorianism while he retained his see, and was bitterly opposed
- SAHAG[Isaacvs (7).]
- SALABERGASep. 22, widow and abbess. She was born in Northern Gaul about A.D. 665. After her husband's death, to whom she had been
- SALAMANES(1), (Zadaudvns). [PH¥sco.]
- SALAPHTHAof Gaza. [Porrnyrius(6).]
- SALATIBELone of the martyrs of Raythu with PauLus (96). [C. H.]
- SALERIUSnotary and chartularius of the Roman church, is mentioned three times in connection with Sicilian business by Gregory th
- SALGAMIUSone of the four deacons condemned by Primian. [Maximranus (2.) Pri- MIANUS. | [ee We Psy
- SALIBA-ZACHA(1), 39th catholicus of Se- 'leucia on the Tigris, succeeded Ananjesus A.D. 714. He was a native of Carchan near Tirhana
- SALLUSTIUS(4), pretorian prefect under Julian, whose persecuting orders he was obliged to execute, much against his will, although
- SALOMEThe New Testament notices of Salome will be found collected in the article on her name in the Dictionary of the Bible. W
- SALOMON(2) (Satmon), abbat of the monastery at Marseilles over which Cassian had once presided (Gall. Chr. i.); addressed in a
- SALONIUS(4), bishop of Genoa, according to some, of Vienne, according to others, about the middle of the 5th century. He was the
- SALVIANUS(1), bishop of Gazaufala (Hartel; v.1. cazauphala, gazauphalia. The true form is in inscr. 4800, Mommsen, vol. viii., ga
- SALVINA(Srtvina), daughter of the © Moorish chief Gildo, count of Africa, and wife of Nebridius, nephew on the mother's side of
- SALVIONUS(Gausionus), a layman to whom Chrysostom wrote stating that he had heard of his fervent affection for him from many who
- SALVIUS(1), martyr at Carthage in the fourth century, and commemorated in the Calendar of Carthage. (Vid. D.C. A. and Tillem. v
- SAMAEL(Samanna). The chief of the seven demons in the Ophite system, was the Serpent, having the two names Michael and Samael
- SAMHTHANN(Samrann, SaurHanna, SAMTHANUS, SAMTHAND), virgin, abbess of Clonbroney, co. Longford, died A.D. 739 (Ann. Tig.). Her li
- SAMLEDWelsh saint of the 7th century, patron of Llansamlet, co. Glamorgan. (Rees, Welsk SS. 309.) [J. G.]
- SAMMONAS(Ammons), bishop of Neapolis (Sichem) in Palestine a.p. 529. He was murdered in one of the frequent revolts of the Samar
- SAMONA[Hasrsvs (2), SARBELIUS.]
- SAMPSAEI(Sauwatoz), heretics, also called Elkesaites (Epiph. Huer. 33 sive 53). ese [C. H.]-
- SAMSON(1) (Sampson), Welsh saint, bishop of Dél.. The legend of this bishop is evidently obscured by the admixture of several
- SAMSUCIUSbishop of Turris, or Turris Caesaris, a town of Numidia, forty miles southeast from Cirta (Burgh Twill, Shaw, p. 43), me
- SAMUEL(1) Feb. 16, martyr, with four other Egyptians, under Firmilian at Caesarea, in the Diocletian persecution. They suffere
- SAMUSbishop. [Symerus.]
- SANCTAN(SanTAn), son of Samuel Ceinnisel (or Chendisel), was bishop of Cill-da- les, or Kill St, Ann, near Tallaght, co. Dublin
- SANCTISSIMUSa presbyter probably deputed by Damasus to convey to Basil and the other prelates of the Eastern Church in 373 the assur
- SANCTUS(A), deacon of Vienne, martyred at Lyons, A.D. 177. (Euseb. v. 1.) {C. H.]
- SANSALAa Gothic presbyter and confessor, mentioned in the acts (§ 4) of the Gothic martyr St. Sabas. (Boll. Acta SS. 12 Ap. ii.
- SAPAUDUS(4) (Gazaupus), twenty-
- SAPIDAa virgin, who presented to St. Augustine a garment which she had made for her brother, probably named Timotheus, a deaco
- SAPIDIANUSvicar of Africa, to whom was addressed, Feb. 25, 400, a law of Honorius, ordaining that a rescript which the Donatists h
- SAPOR(1) IL, king of Persia a.p. 310- 381. The secular history of this monarch will be found in the Dictionary of Greek and R
- SAPRICIUSpriest of Antioch, A.D. 260. He refused to be reconciled to his former friend Nicephorus, and became an apostate through
- SARA(Sdpfa), female solitary, entitled dupas, ie. mater, the feminine of abbas, near Scetis. She was thirteen years constant
- SARAGOSSA, MARTYRS OFApril 16. Highteen persons are celebrated under this name by Prudentius, Hymn, 4. They suffered under the president Daci
- SARAN(2), surnamed Ur Crrrarn, died A.D. 662 (Ann. Tig.). He is the Saranus who is classed with the "Caeteris doctoribus seu
- SARAPAMMON(Sapardupwy), one of the Egyptian catholic bishops banished by the Arian party. (Athan. Ap. ¢. Ar. § 79.) {C. H.}
- SARBELIUS(1) (Smarsm.) [See Epxssa, Martyrs or, Vol. I.] To what has been stated in the article just referred to must here be add
- SARMATIOIn the Epistle of St. Ambrose (Ixiii.) to the church of Vercellae, Sarmatio and Barbatianus are denounced as apostate mo
- SATANIANI[Eupnemrrax, Vol. I. p. 292.] The name Sataniani is copied by Augustine (Haer. 57) from Epiphanius, but without giving a
- SATTIUSAfrican bishop, twentieth in Tit.
- SATURNINUS(Saropvivos, Iren. i. 225 Kuseb. H. FH. iv. 7; Constt. Apol. vi. 8. So also Ps.-Tert. 3; Philaster 31; August. Haer
- SATURUS(1), martyr with Perpetua, March 7. He wrote a vision contained in the Passio Perpetuae, cap. xi-xiii. His vision descri
- SATYRUS(Uranus), the much loved brother of St. Ambrose, who dwells upon his virtues in his discourse, De Excessu Satyri [Ammros
- SAUVE, ST[Saxvius (4).] SAVE, legendary eldest daughter of Adam,
- SAVINELLAColumba, and Agnella, three African ladies of high rank, of whose alms-giving and good works Gregory the Great had heard
- SAVINIANUSthe first bishop of Sens and martyr (Gail. Chr. xii, 2); fabled by some Gallic writers to have been one of the seventy,
- SCALITA(Scraurra), Nestorian bishop of
- SCARILAa man whose queries concerning the Incarnation and the creation of venomous
- SCHALULdeacon of Edessa, said to have been instrumental in the conversion of SARBELivs. [G. S.J
- SCHEMATICIa name for the Monophysites in Joan. Damase. Haer. 83. Some MSS. tread Schismatici (see note in Migne, Patr. Grace. xciv
- SCHOLASTICASaint, sister of S. Benedict. All that is known about her is derived from the Dialogues of Gregory the Great (ii. 33, 34
- SCHOLASTICUS(1), principal eunuch of Theodosius the emperor. Cyril is said to have bribed him lavishly, and thus secured his influen
- SCILLITAN MARTYRSUnder Felix (212) we have given an abstract of the acts of these martyrs. When that notice was written we practically kn
- SEACHLAN(Sracunatt), bishop of Armagh and Dunshaughlin. [Secunprnvs (10).]
- SEALBHAOHson of Cualta, abbat of Cork, died A.pD. 772. (Four Mast. i. 371, a.p. 767.) [J. GJ
- SEBARJESUS(1), 9th Nestorian bishop of Bethgarma, in Chaldea, about the end of the 6th century ; by his intercession he saved his
- SEBASTE, FORTY MARTYRS OF[Forty Marryrs.]
- SEBASTIANUS(1), duke of Thebaid, whither Diocletian sent him in the second year of the great persecution to carry out his edicts. (
- SEBBI(Seppa, Samper) king of the East Saxons. He was the son of Saeward and brother of Sigebert the little, and succeeded to
- SEBERT(Saperctr, SamBrrut, SABA, SAEBRIHT, SEBERT, SIBERT),the first Christian king of the East Saxons. He was the son of Sled
- SEBESIUSa young friend of Jerome, who had been unfaithful to him, but was brought to see and own his fault by the Orator Magnus
- SEBUAEI(ScBovaior), described by Epi- _phanius (Haer. xi.), as the second heresy of the Samaritans. They celebrated, as he stat
- SECUNDAJuly 30, virgin and martyr, when twelve years old at Tuburbium in North Africa with Maxima and Domitilla, her companions
- SECUNDIANUS(or y.1. Sxcunpinvs), eightieth bishop in Sentt. Zpp. Conc. Carth, vii. de Bap. Haer. iii.; called "martyr" in some MSS.
- SECUNDINUS(8), twenty-fourth bishop in suffr. Cone, Carth. vii. de Bap. Haer. iii,; bishop of Carpis (Colonia Julia Carpis) in Pro
- SECUNDUS(1), Gnostic of the second century, a disciple of Valentinus, and apparently one of the earliest of that teacher's succe
- SEDATUS(1), second in the list of the bishops of Nismes, was present at the council of Agde in 506. He was a friend and corresp
- SEDNA(Sxpontus), bishop of Ossory, is noticed by Colgan (Acta SS. 572), and identified
- SEDULIUS(1),* a poet of the 5th century, of whose life very few details are known. The only trustworthy information is to be fou
- SEGATIUS(Ambr. Zp. 87). [Forcapius.]}:
- SEGENIUS(J, Srcenus, Sequin, SEGIANUS, SEGINEUS, SEIGHEN, SEIGINE, SEIGNUS, SigEntus (1), fifth abbat of Hy, and connected with
- SEGETIUSbishop. [lyyocenrius (3).]
- SEGRIIn the visions of Hermas (Vis. Iv. " ii,, 4) he sees a terrible wild beast, whereupon he prays to God who sends "his ang
- SELENAS(SeAnvas), bishop of the Goths in succession to Ulphilas, whose secretary he had been. Through his mixed descent, from t
- SELEUCIAa lady of the Cappadociam Caesarea, wife of Rufinus, a man of rank, and a friend of Chrysostom. She placed her country h
- SELEUCIANAfamula Dei, addressed by Augustine (Zp. 265 al. 108), concerning baptism and the repentance of St. Peter. [(C. H.],
- SELEUCIANIheretics. [SrLnucus (1).]
- SELEUCUS(1), enumerated as a Galatian heretic by Philaster, Hacer. 55. [HERMOGENES, Vol. Il. p. 3.] [G. S.]
- SELRED(1) (Ssenraxp), king of the East Saxons. He is described in the Pedigrees (M. H, B. 629) as the son of Sigebert the Good
- SEMIDALITAEotherwise BARSANUSSITAR, an obscure Monophysite sect. Joh. Damas. t. i. 107, lib. de Haeres. 86; Ceill. xii. 69.
- SEMSKESa monk, and the eldest brother of S. Simeon Stylites. (Asseman. AA. MM. ii. 268; Ceill. x. 580.) [G. T.S.]
- SENACHbishop of @lonard, co. Meath, disciple of St. Finnian of Clonard (Colgan, Acta SS. ii. c. 7, 395, c. 19, 20), and called
- SENANbishop and confessor at Iniscathaigh, in the estuary of the Shannon, two miles from Kilrush. His Lives are full of fable
- SENARIUSpatrician in the suite and personal friendship of Theoderic the Great in the beginning of the sixth century. He was clos
- SENATOR(1), an officer of state of the highest rank in the Eastern Empire in the time of Theodoret. We have a letter of Theodor
- SENCHAN(Sencar, Srancuan, Sencan)
- SENECA(Hxwxcas, Georg. Syncell. or SENTHYAS), the 10th bishop of Jerusalem. His episcopate commenced according to the Chron.
- SENOCHUS(1), ST., a presbyter, who gained a great reputation for sanctity in the Sth century, near Tours. Owing to his intimacy
- SENUTI(July Ist in the ancient Coptic Calendar) was the name of an anchorite of the 5th century, whose history was first broug
- SEPTIMINUSproconsul of Africa, A.D. 403, to whom the council of Carthage, held a.p. 401, addressed amemorial requesting protection
- SEPTIMUSbishop of Altinum, is addressed in one letter of Leo the Great, and mentioned in another to the bishop of Aquileia, both
- SERANUSvicar of Africa during the time of the insurrection of Gildo, about A.D. 393. The violence of the Donatists at this time
- SERAPHIAmartyr. [Sanrna (2).]
- SERAPION(1), bishopeof Antioch, reckoned eighth in succession, A.D. 190-203 (Clinton), succeeded Maximinus in the eleventh year
- SERAS[Serras.]
- SERENAin the Wartyrologium Romanum Parvum (August 16th), is commemorated asasaint, She is there described as the wife of Diocl
- SERENIANUS, AELIUSmember of the privy council of A, Severus, mentioned by Lampridius (Vita Severi, 67) as " omnium vir sanctissi- mus," po
- SERENILLAsister of Desiderius, a learned and eloquent Roman in the end of the 2nd century, and correspondent of Jerome. [Desi- DE
- SERENIUS GRANIANUS[Granranus.] -
- SERENUS(1), June 28, two disciples of Origen, who suffered in the persecution of Severus, were called by this name. They suffer
- SERFUS, ST[Servanus.]
- SERGIAabbess at Constantinople, and author of a Life of St. Olympias (Niceph. Call. lib. xiii. 24; Tillem. xi. 630). (C. H.]
- SERGIOTAEthe disciples of Srrerus (23), as distinguished from the Baanitae or disciples of Baanos. After the death of these Pauli
- SERGIUS(1), addressed in Cyp. Zp. vi. See ROGATIANUS (1). [E. W. B.]
- SERNIN, ST[Sarurnrvs (2).]
- SERPENTINISo Philaster translates the name Uphitae. [G. S.]
- SERRAS(Srras, Sars), at first'a presbyter in Libya, where he was one of the leaders of the Arians (Hieron. Dial. adv. Lucif. §
- SERVANDUS(1), deacon and abbat of the monastery of St. Sebastian in Campania, was a disciple of St, Benedict (Gregorius, Dial. ii
- SERVANUS(Sam, Sare, Sepp, Serr, Serrre, Serrus, SERUAN, SERVAN, SERWANE), popular saint in Scotland, bishop and confessor. His l
- SERVATIUS(1) L, ST., tenth bishop of Tongres, was present at the great council of Sardica, the date of which is now fixed in 343
- SERVILIOthe preceptor of ENNopius (Ennodius, Hpp. v. 14, in Migne, Patr, Lut. \xiii.
- SERVILIUSa monk, said by Evodius to have appeared to him after his death, in a dream (Aug. Zp. 158 al. 258, 9, 11). [H. W. P.]
- SERVUS(1) (Servus Det), bishop of a place in Africa, called by St. Augustine, in the same chapter, Thubursica and Thubursicabu
- SESIN(Sezinus), Breton saint, whose life is compiled by Albert le Grand (Les Vies des SS. Bret. Armor.) from ancient breviari
- SETHITES[See Opurrns, p. 87.] SEVEN BROTHERS, [Feuicrras (1).]
- SEVERA(1), called Marina in the Chron. Pasch., first wife of VALENTINIANUS I., and mother of GRATIANUS (5), q. vy. and also Ju
- SEVERIANAdaughter of Sidonius Apollinaris, who (Zp. 12) was about to take her into the country for the restoration of her health.
- SEVERIANS[Severus (8) and (27)].
- SEVERIANUS(1), confessor of Carthage as Srativs, Cyp. Lp. 21. [E. W. B.]
- SEVERINA and ROMULAladies of Constantinople, probably sisters, to whom Chryso- stom writes from Cucusus, (Chrys. Zp. 219.)
- SEVERINUS()), bishop of Cologne, who succeeded Euphratas A.D. 346, and is very highly 'spoken of by St. Gregory of Tours (De Mir.
- SEVERUSSEPTIMIUS, emperor, was born at Leptis in Tripoli in April a.p. 146. His family were of equestrian rank, and two
- SEWARDking. [Sarwarp.]
- SEXBURGA(4), queen of the West Saxons. This. famous lady was the wife of Coinwalch, king of the West Saxons, and probably the se
- SEXRAED(Sexrep), king of the East Saxons. Sexraed, with his brother Saeward and a third brother, to whom Bromton, the 15th cent
- SEXTUSauthor of a treatise on the Re-
- SIACRIUS(Syacrius), seventh bishop
- SIADHALIrish'saint. [Sepurrs.] |:
- SIBYLLINE ORACLESTHE (Xpnopol
- SIBYLLISTAESo Celsus nicknamed the Christians who attached weight to the prophecies of the Sibyl (Orig. adv. Cels. v. 61). (G. 8.]
- SIDERIUSbishop of Palaebisca, in Egypt. From the epistles of Synesius, Num. 67, we learn that Athanasius sanctioned his consecra
- SIDONIUS(1), Roman confessor (note the Punic name), A.D. 250. See Moses, Maxmius (20), and CELERINUS. [E. W. B.]
- SIGANTIUS[Giaanrivs.]
- SIGBALDthe fourth abbat of a monastery or cell dependent upon Lindisfarne, which has found a metrical chronicler in Ethelwulf.
- SIGEIn the system of Valentinus, as expounded by Irenaeus (i. 1), the origin of things was traced to two eternal co-existent
- SIGEBEDbishop. [S1aca.]
- SIGEBERT(1) I, King of the Austrasian Franks (561-75), was one of the sons of: Clotaire I. by Ingundis (Greg. Tur. Hist.' Franc.
- SIGERAED(1), the last king of the East Saxons. He was the son of Sigeric, and must have succeeded him when in 797 or 799 he went
- SIGERIC(1), king of the Goths, seized on the throne on the murder of Ataulf, at Barcelona in A.D. 415. He was brother of Sarus,
- SIGERIUSpresbyter, disciple of Marcellus of Ancyra (Epiph. Haer. Ixxii. 11). [G. S.J.
- SIGESARIUSa bishop of the Goths, an Arian, who baptized the emperor Attalus (Soz. ix. 9) in 409 (Gibbon, D. § 1'. vol. iv. p. 99,
- SIGEWARDking. [Sazwarp.] SIGFRID, bishop. [Sraea.]
- SIGGA(4), a'deacon of John of Beverley, bishop of York (A.D. 705-18), who is said to have witnessed in the church of St. Mich
- SIGHARD(Sieruearp, Sicimrarp), king of the East Saxons. He was the son of Sebbi, and about the year 695 succeeded his father co
- SIGHERI(Srenere), king of the East Saxons. He was the son of Sigebert the Little, and in conjunction with his uncle Sebbi acqui
- SIGISBERTmonk with St. Columbanus at Luxueil. He went into banishment with his master, and founded the monastery of Disentis
- SIGISMERson-in-law of the emperor Theodosius II, An account of his entry into
- SIGISMUNDUS, STMay 1, martyr, fifth king of the Burgundians (A.D. 516-524), was brought up under the influence of Avitus, the orthodox
- SIGUALDUSpatriarch of Aquileia, is mentioned as patriarch in the deed of foundation of two monasteries in May, A.D. 762. (Cappell
- SIGULFUSabbat of Ferriares and priest. He was a native of Britain, and accompanied Alcuin to the continent: he continued in clos
- SIGWINEan abbat of an unknown cell of Lindisfarne. See ETHELWULF. Sigwine occurs in the Liber Vitae of Durham in the list of ab
- SILANUS(Sitvanus), a deacon of the church of Panormus, mentioned in the reply of Paschasinus, bishop of Lilybaeum, as the beare
- SILAS(Summa), a Nestorian, succeeded BaBarvs, whose archdeacon he had been, as catholicus of Seleucia, a.p. 503 or 505. He wa
- SILBONEa military martyr at Babylon in Egypt, with PaPHNUTIUS and PANESNIU in the persecution of Diocletian (Georgii SS. Coluth
- SILCOthe first Christian king of Nubia. He expelled the Blemmyes from the neighbourhood of Philae, and erected an inscription
- SILLAN(Sitvanus, Sronnan), a uame belonging to saints of the Irish kalendars, many of whom are simply commemorated as abbat, b
- SILVANIA(Sitvra, Satysa), a sister of Rufinus the minister of Theodosius the Great. She is famous in monastic history for her st
- SILVANUS(1), a patripassian mentioned by Gennadius (Dogm. Eccles. c. 4) with Tony
- SILVENEUS(Synvenrus), monk at Kilrule (St. Andrews, Fifeshire); received the relics of St. Regulus on their arrival in Scotland a
- SILVERIUSbishop of Rome after Agapetus, during the reign of Justinian I. Agapetus having died at Constantinople, when on the poin
- SILVESTER(1)bishop of Rome after Miltiades, from Jan, 31, A.D. 314, to Dec. 31, A.D. 335, during 21 years and 11 months. Though his
- SILVIAthe mother of Gregory the Great. She retired, probably after the death of her husband, GorDIANUS (7), to a place afterwa
- SILVIUScompanion of St. Regulus, and brother of Nathabeus (Skene, Chron. 187 ;
- SIMEON(1), second bishop of Jerusalem, succeeding James, the brother of our Lord. According to the statement of Hegesippus, pr
- SIMON(2), a friend of Isidore of Pelusium [PauLus (62)]. - (C. H.]
- SIMONIANIUnder this name the followers of Simon Magis are described in the Apost. Constit. vi. 16, cf. Epiph. adv. Haer. Num. xxi
- SIMPLICIA(2), a wealthy lady of Cappadocia, very lavish in her gifts to the church, but suspected of unsoundness in the faith. On
- SIMPLICIANUS, STbishop of Milan next after St, Ambrose, better known by what we hear of his influence over others more famous than himse
- SIMPLICIOLAvirgin. [QuinTIL1aNus (3).]
- SIMPLICIUS(1), governor of Tarsus, under whom St. Boniface is said to have suffered on May 14. Boniface was steward to Aglae, a Ro
- SINACHbishop of Clogher, date unknown, but probably about the close of the 8th century. (Ware, Zr. Bps. Clogher; Cotton, Fast.
- SINDEREDUSbishop of Toledo, succeeded Gunpveric (4) before A.D. 710, Isidorus Pacensis gives an inconsistent account of him; after
- SINELLUS(J) bishop of Clogher, co. Tyrone, about A.D, 550, as successor to Tighernach. (Ware, Ir. Bps, Clogher; Cotton, Fast. Hi
- SINICIUSsecond. bishop* of Rheims and Soissons, was disciple and successor of Sixtus, c. A.D. 300. Inthe Acta of Sixtus and Sini
- SIPHORI(al. lec. Sympnort), the earlier name of those heretics called in Gennadius's time BonostAni (Gennad. Eccles. Dogm. c. 5
- SIRICA(1), abbess of the nunnery of SS. Gavinus and Luxorius at Cagliari, had assumed to make a will, which was supported on t
- SIRICIUSbishop of Rome after Damasus from the latter part of December, a.D. 384, or the earlier part of January, A.D. 385, to No
- SIRMIUM, STONEMASONS OFThe history of the martyrdom of the five stone-masons of Sirmium has of late occupied much attention. Their names were S
- SISEBERTbishop of Toledo, succeeded JuuraNus, who died in March A.p. 690, and is perhaps the same person as Sisebert who signs a
- SISEBUTking of Spain, succeeded GunDEMAR in the autumn of A.D. 612. He put down a revolt among the Asturians and -the Ruccones,
- SISENANDking of Spain, a.p. 631-636, obtaining the crown by a successful rebellion against SUINTHILA, q.v. Hardly anything is kn
- SISINNIUSalso SYS-.
- SISOHsolitary of Egypt. There were two of this name; one of Petra, the other from the Thebaid. One of them lived on Sinai fro
- SIXTUS(1), first bishop of Rheims and Soissons, is said in the Acta of St. Sixtus and St. Sinicius, to have been consecrated a
- SMARAGDUS(1), exarch of Ravenna, c. 584-588 and again c. 602-610. The exact date of his appointment is unknown, but in A.D, 584 o
- SNEDBRANUSbishop of Kildare, died A.D. 787, (Ann. Ult. A.D. 786; Cotton, Fust. Hib. ii, 224.) {J. G.]
- SOBIAI[E.xesaires, Vol. IL. p. 96 a.]
- SOCRATES(1), bishop of Laodicea in Syria Prima, the predecessor of Euseprus (48) (Euseb. H. Z. vii. 32), {C. H.]
- SOCRATITARgiven by Epiphanius (Ancor. 13), and after him by Joannes Damascenus (Haer. 26) as the name of a Gnostic sect. In the co
- SOLENNIS(Sotremnis, SoLempntus, SoLENNIUS, SoLEMPIUS), fourteenth bishop of Chartres, succeeded Palladius after A.D. 480, but th
- SOLIASSUSone of Felicissimus' excommunicated partisans, a banished confessor; Cyp. Ep. 42 (see AUGENDUS); called in MSS. Budinari
- SOLUS(Sona), ST., hermit, an Englishman by birth, followed St, Boniface to Germany and was ordained by him during the reign o
- SOLUTORNoy. 20, martyr with Octavius and Adventor. They are regarded as the patrons of Turin, and are supposed to have belonged
- SONNATIUS21st archbishop of Rheims (circ. A.D. 594-631), was deacon and archdeacon under his predecessor, who intrusted him with
- SOPATERgovernor of Armenia at the time of Chrysostem's banishment. Chrysostom says of him that he presided over the province li
- SOPHIA(2), martyr [Fives (1).] (Light-foot, Apost. Fathers, pt. ii. vol. i. p, 490, ed. 1885.) {C. H.]
- SOPHIANI(Soduavol), heretics in the list of Sophronius, between the Sethiani and the Ophitae. (Hard. iii. 1292 a.) The name prob
- SOPHIASof Beneventum, Jan. 24, confounded with St. Cadocus. [Capoo.] (Cf. AA. SS. Poll. Jan. ii. 602-606.) [G. T. §.]
- SOPHRONASan Alexandrian, who accused St. Cyril of tyranny, and prejudiced the mind of ~ the emperor Theodosius against him in the
- SOPHRONIA(Sornronium), the second of the noble Roman ladies (Marcella being the first) who made vows of virginity and poverty. Sh
- SOPHRONIUSCyp. Zp. 42. See AuGENDus. One of Felicissimus' excommunicated partisans. [E. W. B.]
- SOSIPATERa presbyter, to whom one of the pretended letters of Dionysius, the Areopagite, is addressed. [Dionysius (1) in Vol. I.
- SOTAS(Swr@s), bishop of Anchialusin Thrace, is stated in the letter of Aelius Publius Julius, bishop of Debeltum, quoted by E
- SOTERbishop of Rome after Anicetus, in the reign of Marcus Aurelius, during eight or nine years. As is the case generally wit
- SOTERIOCUSarchbishop of Caesarea, in Cappadocia. He and Philoxenus presided at the Monophysite council of Sidon in the year 511 or
- SOTERTScalled also Sorneris, SOTHERES, and SorHERA, Feb. 10 (Mart. Rom.), May 12 (Adon.), virgin and martyr at Rome in the Dioc
- SOTION(Gerttwy, Zwriwy), deacon of Magnesia and one of the deputies of his church who visited Ignatius at Smyrna. In the recei
- SOZOMENauthor of a well known Zeclesiastical History, born about A.D. 400. His full name appears to have been Hermias Sozomenus
- SPARTIANUS, AELIUSone of the six writers of the Augustan history. In the Dictionary of Classical Biography there will be found an account
- SPECIOSUS(1), priest; Gregory th Great's authority for the story of Romuns (Dial. iv. 15). LF. D.]
- SPERANTIUS(1), one of' the Numidia bishops, addressed by Constantine I. in a Jette concerning building a church in place of on occ
- SPES(2), abbat of a monastery founded by himself at Comple, six miles from Nursia, had been blind for forty years, and then
- SPES-IN-DEOpraeses of Sardinia, was in A.D. 601 asked by Gregory the Great to assist Victor, bishop of Phausiana, in his missionary
- SPESINASee Macarius (20); Christian woman at Rome, Cyp. Hp. 22; probably a Carthaginian. The name occurs as that of an African
- SPEUSIPPUSJan. 17, martyr, together with his twin brothers Eleusippus and Melasippus, under Marcus Aurelius in France. They were t
- SPLENDONIUSa deacon employed in Gaul, and there condemned for some offence not known, but admitted into the Donatist community, re-
- SPORACIUS(Asporactus), a man of high rank in the court at Constantinople, Comes Domesticus, A.D. 451, and consul in 452, orthodox
- SPYRIDON(Spyrip10n, Srrrrpr0N), bishop of Trimithus in Cyprus, one of the most popularly celebrated of the bishops attending the
- STAGIRIUSa sophist, at Constantinople, under whom Nicobulus sent his son to study, without having previously consulted his uncle,
- STAGIRUS(Sraerrius), a young friend of Chrysostom. He was of noble birth, and against the wishes of his father, whose favourite
- STASIMUSa count to whom Theodoret wrote commending to his liberality Celestiacus, a senator of Carthage, who having had to flee
- STATIUSconfessor of Carthage in the Decian persecution ; fled to Rome, was received by Numerta, Cyp. Zp. 21. [E. W. B.}
- STAUROS(See Horus; VALENTINUS @); p. 229; Iren. I. iii. 5; Hippol. Ref, vi. 31.) [G. $.]
- STELECHIUSdesignated by Chrysostom "a holy man of God," to whom that writer dedicated the second book of his treatise on "Compunct
- STENNIUSbishop of Ariminum (Rimini),
- STEPHANUS(1) L, bishop of Rome, after Lucius, from 12th May, a.p. 254, to 2nd Aug.
- STIDBERTan abbat, to whom Offa, king of Mercia in 767 (K. C. D, 116, a.p, 767 corr. for 757), gave lands in Middlesex, in exchan
- STILICHOAn account of his life will be found under Honorius (1), emperor, and in the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography. A
- STRATIOTICILEpiphanius (Haer. 26), in _ his article on the sect to which he gives the name of Gnostics (under which head he appears
- STRATONICEOct. 31, martyr at Cyzicum, in Mysia, with Seleucus, her husband, at the Quinquennalia of Galerius and during the Diocle
- STRATONICUS(1), bishop of Charrae (Haran) c. 512 (Gams), He had been a presbyter and oeconomus of the Greek church at Edessa, and i
- STUDIUS(1), a correspondent of St. Ambrose (Zipp. xxv., xxvi.), In answer to an inquiry of his, whether it were right to execut
- STYLITAEThe example set by Simeon, the famous Syrian pillar-saint, found not a few copyists in Syria and Greece, so late even as
- SUAEBHARDking of Kent, 676. (Kemble, C, D, 14,15.) [SuErrep.] [C. H.]
- SUAEBRAEDking of Essex, 704,. (Kemble, C. D, 52.) [Surrrep.] (C. H.]
- SUCCESSUS(1), bishop of Abbir Germaniciana (Abbir misius, JZommsen, hod. Hren Naim Momm.), in the far south (Morcelli) of pro-con
- SUCCONIUS(Saccontvus), bishop of Uzalis near Utica (Aug. de Civ. Dei, xxii. 8), was one of the bishops who attended the council a
- SUEFRED(Sursrep, SUAEBHARD, SUAEBRAED), a son of Sebbi, king of the East Saxons, who about the year 695 came to the throne conj
- SUENES(Govhyns), a wealthy Persian Christian, persecuted under Isdegerd. (Theod. H. LE. v. 38 al. 39; Tillem. xii. 360.) [C. H
- SUFFRONIUSbp. [Eurrontus (38).]
- SUIDBERHTabbat of Dacre (Dacore), in Cumberland. Beda mentions a cure wrought there by St. Cuthbert's reliques during Suidberht's
- SUIDBERT(Surppercr, Surrpert, SurBERT), regionary bishop in Frisia, one of the twelve whom St. Egbert sent out to Northern Europ
- SUINTHILAking of Spain, a.p..621-631, succeeded on the death of Reccared Il., the youthful son of Sisebut. There is no ancient au
- SUITHANA(Surrua, OsurTHA), an abbess in the diocese of Mainz, excommunicated by Lullus, her archbishop, for permitting lax disci
- SULPICIUS(1) L, ST., consecrated archbishop of Bourges A.D, 584. Gregory of Tours says: " He is in truth a most noble man, of the
- SUNNAArian bishop of Merida, intruded by Leovigild c. a.p. 682 when he found he could not win over Masona, Sunna, on his arri
- SUNNIASa presbyter of Getica in the beginning of the 5th century. He, with Fretela, wrote to Jerome about the year 403, and rec
- SUNNILAbishop of Viseo, was originally an Arian, and was probably appointed by Leovigild after his conquest in A.D. 585 of the
- SUPERIUS(1), African (? Tingit) bishop (see AHIMNIUS); first proposed the case in Cyp.. Zp.
- SURotherwise Syr, one of the three original disciples of Pachomius, the Egyptian founder of regular monastic communities in
- SURANUSabbat of a monastery at Sora, expended all he had in relieving the fugitives from the Lombards. Being therefore unable t
- SWEBHEARD, SWABHARD, SWABERT, SUEBRED[Surrrep.]
- SWITHADD(Swirnrep), king of the East Saxons. He appears in the pedigrees (MZ. H. B. 629), as the son and successor of Selred, wh
- SWITHELM(Sumuetm), king of the East Saxons. He is described by Bede as the son of Sexbald, and in the pedigrees of the ancient k
- SWITHULFan abbat, probably of some
- SYAGRIAachatitable lady at Lyons, e. 500, praised by Ennodius (Vit. Epiph. in Pat. Lat. Ixiii. 234), When Epiphanius bishop of
- SYAGRIUS(0), of Verona. [Inprcra.]
- SYLVIAsister of Flavius Rufinus, consul in 392 and prefect of: the Hast under Theodosius and. Arcadius. A work written by" her
- SYMEONSIMEON.
- SYMMACHIANIheretics so called, are enumerated by Philaster (c. 63), are supposed by him to have derived their doctrine from PAtRi-
- SYMMACHUS(1), the twenty-second bishop of Jerusalem, the seventh of the Gentile succession, was preceded and followed by a Gaius.
- SYMMAOHUS(1), defensor of the Roman church 'in Corsica, addressed by Gregory the Great (i. 52) [Horostus]. He was also ordered to
- SYMPHONIAthe name of a book used by the Arcnonticr (see Vol. I. p. 153; Epiph. Hauer, 40), (G. S.]
- SYMPHORIANUS(1), Aug. 22, martyr, according to the MSS. of his acts, under Aurelian, for which name Ruinart would substitute Aureliu
- SYMPHOROSAJuly 18 (Mart. Rom); June 27 (Us. Adon.), the wife of Getulius, tribune and martyr, under the emperor Hadrian (GuruLius]
- SYMPHOSIUSbishop probably of Astorga (Gams, Kirchengeschichte von Spanien, ii. (1) 370 n.), a Priscillianist leader, is first ment
- SYMPOSIUS(Sympius, Samus), bishop of Seleucia in Isauria, from whom, in A.D. 374, Basil received kindly expressed letters of comm
- SYMPRONIANUSa Novatianist controversialist, to whom Pacianus of Barcelona addressed his letters against Novatianism.
- SYNADIUSa correspondent of Isidore of Pelusium., Isidore (Zpist. i. 284) discusses for his use the doctrine of the Resurrection
- SYNCLETICA(1), a virgin and deaconess of 5th cent., celebrated by Sedulius the poet in his epistle to the abbat Macedonius, She wa
- SYNCLETION(Syncuerica), a lady who sent. medicines to Chrysostom during his last winter at Cucusus which relieved him in three day
- SYNCLETIUS(1), bishop of Trajanopolis in Thrace, and metropolitan, one of the three episcopal commissioners—Palladius of, Helenopo
- SYNEROSMarcionite teacher, mentioned by Rhodo (ap, Euseb. H. HZ. v. 13). See the article Marcron, Vol. III. p. 819,a. [G.8.]
- SYNEROTISa martyr in the Diocletian persecution, whose true name has only been lately discovered. In Ruinart's Acta Sincera, p- 5
- SYNESIUS(4), a youthful relative of Gregory Nyssen, but otherwise unknown, charged with a capital offence. Gregory (Zp. 7 in Pat
- SYNUSIASTAE(Quvovoiacral), a name given by Cyril to those who maintained that the divine and human natures were so united in one Ch
- SYRIANUSdux of Egypt, who in 356, instigated by the Arians, burst with his armed
- SYRUSthe abbat of a monastery in Egypt,