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  • TADIOCUSsaid to have been the last bishop of York in the British line, and to have fled with Theonus, bishop of London, into Wal
  • TALARICANUS(Tarkiy), Pictish bishop, said in the Brev. Aberd. (Prop. SS. p. aest. f. exxxiv.) to have been an Irishman raised to th
  • TALASIUSsixth bishop of Angers, was 'consecrated on the occasion of the synod of Angers, held in October 453, in which he took p
  • TALITANUS" publici patrimonii curator," is requested by Gregory the Great to prevent the officials of the state levying unjust ex
  • TAORa nun of a monastery near Antinople in Egypt, about a.v. 420. She was of singular beauty. While the other nuns went for
  • TAORGIUSa bishop who ordained Ephesius as Luciferian bishop of Rome in opposition to Damasus, who persecuted him. (Marcell. et F
  • TARAOHUSOct. 11 (Wart. Rom.), Oct. 12. (Bas. Men.) He was also called Victor. He was an Isaurian from Claudiopolis, and a soldie
  • TARASIUS, STpatriarch of Constantinople, was the son of the patrician Georgius, and himself became chief secretary to the emperor. T
  • TARBULAmartyr. [PHERBUTHA.]
  • TARCONDIMANTUS(Tarcoprmantus, or TARCODUNANTODS), bishop of Aegae in Cilicia Secunda, one of the prelates of the Arian party present..
  • TARSIANS(THARSENSES), a name applied by St. Jerome to the followers of the semiArian Silvanus, bishop of Tarsus, in a letter ad-
  • TARSINUSpriest of the church of Suedra, in Pamphylia, in response to whose appeal for help against the Arians, St: Epiphanius wr
  • TASGODRUGLheretics in the enumeration of Sophronius (Mansi, xi. 850 D), named in the yersion of Hardouin (iii. 1291 B). Tacxododpy
  • TASOsecond abbat of St. Vincent ad Vulturnum. Heand his brother Tato and their cousin
  • TASSACH(Tassa), bishop of Raholp, in par. Ballyculter, co, Down, gave the viaticum to St. Patrick shortly before he died. St. P
  • TATBERTa kinsman and companion. of Wilfrid I., bishop of York, who received, by his bequest, the monastery of Ripon, of which h
  • TATEFRITHa pupil of St. Hilda, whom Bede describes as a most strenuous and learned man, of excellent genius, andan inmate of her
  • TATHYRIANLheretics in the enumeration of Sophronius (Mansi, xi. 850 D), in Hardouin Gii. ©1291 B) Wa@upravol and Psathyriani. [PSA
  • TATIANSr. Jonny.
  • TATIANUS(2), March *12,/ martyr at Merus, in Phrygia, with Macedénius and Theodulus, under Julian. . They! were ordered to clean
  • TATION(Tariwv), martyr in Isauria in the persecution of Diocletian (Menaea, Aug. 24; Neale, Patr. of Antioch, p. 70). {C. Hj
  • TATON[Taso.]
  • TATWIN(Tatwine, Taturni, TADWINUS), the ninth archbishop of Canterbury (IL H. B. p. 616). Tatwin is described by Bede (H. £. v
  • TAURINUS(2), count of Africa, A.D. 348, at the time when Paulus and Macarius were sent by Constans to endeavour to conciliate th
  • TAURUS(4), pretorian prefect to whom the emperor Constantius entrusted the bishops at the council of Rimini, in A.D. 359, with
  • TAVIAa Christian of Smyrna, saluted by St. Ignatius (Zp. ad Smyrn. § 13; Tillem. ii. 331). But the best reading is Gavia (Lig
  • TAYOsurnamed SAMUEL, bishop of Saragossz, succeeded BRAULIO in A.D. 651, and was present at the eighth, ninth, and tenth cou
  • TEACHING OF THE TWELVE APOSTLESIn the article Clemens RomAnus (Vol. I. p. 557 b) has been related the discovery by Bryennius at Constantinople of a MS.
  • TECLAabbess of the nunnery of St. Mary, founded in the house of the deceased Felix. Gregory the Great directs the defensor Ro
  • TECUSA[Seven Martyrs or AncyRA.}
  • TELEMACHUSan Eastern monk who sacrificed his life when endeavouring to separate the combatants in the gladiatorial shows at Rome,
  • TELESPHORUS(1), addressed in an epistle by Dionysius Alexand. (Hieron. de Vir. Iilust. cap. 1xix.). (G. T. S.J
  • TELIAUbishop of Llandaff. [Trtt0.]
  • TENAXAfrican bishop in iv. Syn. Carth. de Basilide, A.D. 254, Cyp. Hp. 67; the same as the bishop of Horrea Coeliae who spoke
  • TEREBINTHUSbishop of Neapolis (Shechem), in Palestine. He lived under the emperor Zeno, A.D, 475-495. He was attacked by the Samari
  • TERENANUSbishop or archbishop of Treland, is said in the Vita S. Laurentii (Ussher, Whs. iv. 422) to have been attracted to Engla
  • TERENTIUS(1), Apr. 10, African martyr with companions in the Decian persecution, imprisoned, tortured, and beheaded by the jryewe
  • TERIDUSan abbat, nephew of CarsaRrius (8) bishop of Arles, the writer of the Regula ad Monachos at his uncle's dictation, (Hols
  • TERMATIUS(Turmasius), according to Baronius a bishop, but according to another account a presbyter of Bustigiensium, probably Bas
  • TERNAN(Tarnanus, TERRANANUS, TERUAN, TIERENANUS), archbishop of the Picts, closely connected with SS. Palladius and Servanus,
  • TERNATIUS(Terniscus), twenty-seventh archbishop of Besancon in the latter half of the 7th century. There is extant a diploma of t
  • TERTIUSdeacon. - [Pomprontus (2).]
  • TERTULLIANUS(1), QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS FLORENS, or— simply —SEP- TIMIUS. I. Life ; Il. Times (p. 819) ; IIL. Writings (p. 821). A. As La
  • TERTULLUSA presbyter of Carthage or a bishop of Africa, who appears with Cyprian, Zp. iv., giving judgment on the dis-
  • TESTAMENTA XII. PATRIARCHARUMThis apocryphal work consists, as its name implies, of the last dying utterances of the twelve sons of Jacob to their ch
  • TETERIUSan author who wrote an account of the miracles performed by the bones of the martyrs St. Cyricus and St. Julitta, which
  • TETHGHALbishop of Lynally, King's Co., died Apr. 16, a.p. 709. (IL. Doneg., Fi
  • TETRADITESheretics mentioned by John of Ephesus (H. £. tr. by Dr. R. Payne Smith, p. 359) along with Arians, Samosatenians, Manich
  • TETRADIUSsixteenth archbishop of Bourges. His date is fixed by his subscriptions to the canons of the council of Agde, held in 50
  • TETRICUS(1), ST., seventeenth bishop of Langres (A.D. 539-572), was present at the fifth council of Orleans, in 549, at that of
  • TETTA(Turra), sister of Ine king of Wessex, and abbess of Wimburn, under whom St. Agatha and St. Lioba were educated (Mabillo
  • TEWDRIG(Tueroporic), son of Teithfallt king of Morganwg or South Wales, probably belongs to the 6th century, as contemporary wi
  • THADIOCENUS(THaptacus), British bishop of York [CaprocENvs, TuEonus].
  • THAIS, STOct. 8, a penitent courtesan of Egypt, who was converted about a.p. 344 by Paphnutius of Sidon. Her story illustrates he
  • THALASSIAabbess of the nunnery of St. Mary at Autun. Gregory the Great wrote to her in A.D. 602, granting various privileges to t
  • THALASSIUS(1), a famous solitary, remarkable for his simplicity, gentleness and humility, the head of an ascetic brotherhood on th
  • THALELAEUS(1), congratulated by Isidore of Pelusium (lib. i. ep. 143) on his having devoted himself to Christian studies. [C. H.]
  • THARSICUS, STAug. 15, an acolyte, who suffered about A.D. 256. He was carrying the Eucharist with him. Some soldiers attacked him, de
  • THARSILLApaternal aunt of Gregory the Great. She with her sisters, Aemiliana and Gordiana, had together taken vows and lived a mo
  • THEA, STJuly 25,4 virgin identified with a martyr of Gaza, whose sufferings Eusebius recounts in Murt. Palest. cap. viii, She su
  • THEANUS(TxeEonvs), first reputed bishop of London, where, assisted by Cyranus, the pincerna of king Lucius, he is said to have
  • THEASIUSbishop of Memblosa, probably the same as Membro of Antoninus (/tin. 22, 2) and Membione of the Peutinger Table, 6 m. fro
  • THEBACULUSmonk, accompanied St. Regulus to Scotland, A.D. 369, and is said by Dempster (H. Z. Scot. ii. 616) to have written Conci
  • THEBAN LEGION[Lucro THEsBara.]
  • THEBUTHISstated by Hegesippus (apEuseb. H. 2. iv. 22) to have been the first to introduce heresy into the Church of Jerusalem, be
  • THECLA(1), the heroine of a romantic story which from a very early date has had a strong hold on the imagination of the Church
  • THELIANUS SCOTUSdisciple of St. David, flourished about A.D. 562, and wrote Vita Magistri Davidis ; Epistolae ad varios ; Conciones piae
  • THELIAUSbishop of Llandaff. [Txro.] THELICA, martyr with Dativus (3).
  • THELYMIDRHSbishop of Laodicea in Syria Prima, ¢. 250-260 (Gams), mentioned by Dionysius of Alexandria in his letter to the Christia
  • THEMISON(1), a 2nd century leader of the Montanists. See Vol. III. p. 939. [G. T. S.]
  • THEMISTIUS(1), a deacon of Alexandria and a Severian of cent. vii., surnamed Calonymus, who wrote against Joannes Philoponus. He c
  • THENEW(Tanev, THAmMetis, THENNAT, THENNOW, THENOG), mother of St. Kentigern, and included among the saints in the Scotch kalen
  • THEO[Turon]. THEOCATAGNOSTALH, heretics who cen-
  • THEOCRATORfather of SS. Apater and Trai, Egyptian martyrs, whose sufferings and confession are told, together with those of St. Ma
  • THEOCRITUS(1) (2). Two bishops of
  • THEOCTISTA(2), daughter of Gurdia and wife of Christodorus, is mentioned in a letter of Gregory the Great. (Zpp. vii. 30,), She wa
  • THEOCTISTUS(1), ST., Sept. 6, martyr 'at Nicomedia with Cyprian and Justina under Diocletian. Some sailors stole his relics and car
  • THEODAHADUSthe son of Theoderic's sister, Amalafrida, by her first husband, lived tilla mature age on his yast estates in Tuscany.
  • THEODARDUS, STbishop of Maestricht, in the 7th century. He was a monk of Stavelo, or Malmédy, in the Ardennes, and may probably have r
  • THEODASalleged disciple of St. Paul, by whom the Valentinians asserted that their master had been taught. (Clem. Alex. Strom. v
  • THEODEBERTking of the Franks (A.D. 534-548), the most capable and ambitious of the Merovingian line after Clovis, was alre
  • THEODECHILDIS(1), a queen in France, whose praises and epitaph were written by: Venantius Fortunatus. She is extolled for her noble b
  • THEODELINDAqueen of the Lombards, was daughter of Garibald king of the Bavarians. Paulus Diaconus (iii. 30) tells the story of the
  • THEODEMAR(THEvTMAR), twelfth abbat of M. Cassino, succeeded Poto in A.D. 777. According to the anonymous author of the Life of St
  • THEODEMIRa Gothic noble of Spain at the time of the conquest. He was the first to attack Tarik on his landing. After the defeat
  • THEODERICUS[Tuxoportcvs.] THEODORA (1), April 28, virgin and
  • THEODORA(2), Sept. 17, a matron who devoted herself to the service of the martyrs in the Diocletian persecutions. When the cemet
  • THEODORETUS(1) (TxEopoRbUs), Oct. 23, presbyter of Antioch and martyr at the hands of count Julianus, uncle of the emperor Julianus
  • THEODORICUS(fHEoDERICUS, THEUDEREDUS), chosen king.of the Visigoths on the death of Valia, s.p. 419. He was the real founder
  • THEODORUS(1), a bishop present at the council of Antioch, held against Paul of Samosata (Euseb. H. Z. vii. 30). [G. T. S.J
  • THEODOSIA(1), April 2, a virgin of Tyre and martyr at Caesarea, in Palestine, under the president Urban. She suffered, a.p. 307,
  • THEODOSIANIthe Alexandrian name, about A.D. 630, for one section of the Monophysite party, otherwise called Severians, or ~OaprorAd
  • THEODOSIUS(1), count, father of the emperor, a Spaniard by birth, and a distinguished soldier, first appears as sent by Valentinia
  • THEODOTA(1), virgin and martyr with her sisters. She suffered in the Diocletian persecaution with SS. Cyrus and John at Alexandr
  • THEODOTIANI[Tuxoporus (4).]
  • THEODOTIONotherwise TuEoporus (so Suidas* s.v. x"vi(wv), author of the Greek version of the Old Testament which followed, as those
  • THEODOTUS(4), bishop of Heliopolis (Baalbec), in Phoenicia Secunda, by whom, according to the Roman Martyrology, and the
  • THEODREDUStenth of the supposed British bishops of London. For the authorities see OBINUS. [C. H.]
  • THEODULFUS(1), a deacon of Paris, who denied the resurrection. He withdrew to his friend Andoveus bishop of Angers, and was severa
  • THEODULUS(1), Feb. 17, an aged and trusty slave of Firmilian, the governor of Palestine. He was crucified by his master at Cae- s
  • THEODWIN(Depwyn), ninth of the supposed British bishops of London. For authorities see OBINUS and Stubbs's Registrum Sacrum, 152
  • THEOFRIDUS(Sr. CuHarrre), second abbat of Columelia (Chemilly), slain by the Saracens in 728. He was the author of Micrologus de l
  • THEOGENESbishop of Hippo Regius, suffrag. xiv. in Syn. Carth. sub Cyp. vii. de Bap. iii. He was martyred. Augustine, preaching at
  • THEOGNISbishop of Nicaea at the time of the first General Council held at that city. He defended Arian views, and was ordered to
  • THEOGNISTESa bishop of Gaul. He condemned the execution of Priscillian as unjust and unchristian. With St. Martin, of Tours, he ref
  • THEOGNOSTUS(4), a priest of Alexandria and a writer of cent. iii, whose existence we only know through quotations in Saint Athanasi
  • THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY LIBRARYSi ean Sia wie co
  • THEOLOGIUSaddressed by Isidore of Pelusium (i. 54), in reply to the Nestorian objection to the term Theotokos that it placed the B
  • THEON(1) (THEoNAs), anchoret near Oxyrynchus in the Thebaid, flourished about the close of the fourth century (Sozomen, H. 2.
  • THEONAS(1), 15th bishop of Alexandria (whom Eutychius absurdly calls Veron), succeeded Maximus in 282. His episcopate, says Nea
  • THEONEa virgin and martyr in Egypt in the persecution of Diocletian. She is unknown to the Martyrologies, but some fragments o
  • THEONILLAa lady of rank, to whom Theodoret wrote a letter of consolation on the death of her husband. (Theod. Zpp. 7.)
  • THEONUSreputed to have been a British bishop of Gloucester; to have been translated to London in 553, and in 586 to have migrat
  • THEOPASCHITAKRa name applied about A.D. 518, to the Monophysites, who upheld the addition to the Trisagion of the phrase 'One of the T
  • THEOPEMPTUS(1), bishop of Nichium in 404, [TEoposrus (15).]
  • THEOPHANES(1) (Taropnivs), said by
  • THEOPHANIUScount of Centumcellae, — is highly praised for his beneficence by Gregory the Great, who relates how a great storm cease
  • THEOPHILUS(1), bishop of Caesarea, in Palestine, at the close of the second century. He is mentioned by Eusebius (H. E. v. 22), as
  • THEOPHRASTUS(1), the bearer of a letter from Basil to Melitius in 371 (Basil, Zp. 57 [56]); probably the deacon who was prevented by
  • THEOPHRONIUSbishop of Tyana, He drew up the creed adopted at the Dedication Synod of Antioch in a.p. 341. The creed is found in Atha
  • THEOPHYLACTUS(1) SIMOCATTA (@coptaakros copirrhs @ emdyuuov Suoxdrns, Suidas), a writer to whom we owe a very minute account of the w
  • THEOPONITAEa name given by Praedestinatus to heretics of whom he had read in Augustine (Haer. 73), who taught that our Lord's divin
  • THEOSEBASa deacon of the Thirian (2 Tyrian) church, ordained priest by bishop
  • THEOSEBEIAthe wife of Gregory Nyssen,
  • THEOSTHENESa Christian to whom
  • THEOTECNUS(1), bishop of Caesarea in Palestine, succeeded Domnus, c. 260 (Gams). He was a disciple of Origen, who is much praised
  • THEOTIMUS(1), a Valentinian teacher, oncerning whom our knowledge is limited to yhat can be gathered from Tertullian's words, 'Mu
  • THERAPEUTAE[Pato.] THERAPIUS. (African) bishop of Bulla in
  • THERASIUSa governor of Cappadocia, highly praised by Basil. He appears to have been removed from his office after a very short te
  • THERMUTHISsupposed name of Pharaoh's daughter, who brought up Moses (Epiph. Haer. Ixxyiii, 24). (G. S.J
  • THESPESIUSa professor of rhetoric at Caesarea, in Palestine, under whom Gregory Nazianzen studied, at the same time with Euzoius,
  • THEUCARIUSreader and choir-master at Carthage, who apostatized to the Arians in the persecution of Hunneric. His endeavour to brin
  • THEUDECHILDIS[THropxEcur.pis.]
  • THIUDISGothic king, was originally armour-bearer to Theoderic the Ostrogoth, who appointed him regent in Spain and Septimania d
  • THNETOPS YCHITARheretics mentioned by John of Damascus in his book on heresies, as teaching that the soul perishes with the body (Ceill.
  • THOMAS(1), disciple of Manes, to whom he is said to have entrusted the region of Syria as his field of operations. Petrus Sicu
  • THOMIAN(THomanvs, THomEenus, THOMIENUS, TOIMEN, TormENE, ToMENE, TOMIANUS, ToMMENE, TOMMIAN, TomyN), abbat and bishop of Armagh
  • THORISMUND(1), king of the Visigoths, eldest son of TuEoporic I., was elected king on the battlefield of the Mauriac plains, where
  • THRASAMUND(2) (TRAsamuND, TRAsIMUND); king of the Vandals, succeeded his brother Gundamund Sept. 24, a.p. 496. Procopius praises h
  • THRASEASOct. 5, bishop of Eumenia an martyr at Smyrna. He is mentioned by tw writers of the 2nd century, Apollonius, in hi work
  • THREE CHAPTERSTHE (Tpla xed Ama, TRIA CAprruLa), the name of an edic issued by Justinian between A.D. 543 and 545 probably in the latt
  • THRUIDREDabbat of Dacre (Dacore) in Cumberland, when Beda wrote the life of Cuthbert. He had been previously a priest in the same
  • THRYDWULFabbat, in Beda's time, of the monastery in the wood of Elmete. Beda tells us that the stone altar was preserved there wh
  • THUNDERING LEGION(Leaio FutMINATRIX). The story of the Thundering Legion is as follows. During the war against the Quadi, about 4.D. 174,
  • TIAson of one Soterichus, an ascetic in the Thebaid, and martyr in the persecution of Diocletian. His acts well illustrate
  • TIBERIANUSA letter is given by John Malalas (xi. 273, in Migne, Patr. Gr. xcvii. 413) — and Suidas, s.v. Tpatavds, purporting to c
  • TIBERIUS(1), a deacon and superior of a monustery, to whom St. Cyril directed his replies to certain queries about the creation
  • TIBURTIUSpriest of the church of St, Laurence at Rome. RwPARATUS saw in the vision of the lower world a vast pyre prepared and Ti
  • TICHONIUS(Tycuontus), an African Donatist, of whose personal history very little is known, but whose name is conspicuous in the D
  • TIDFERTH(Tipperur, Tiprrira, TrFERD, THDFRID, HIDFERTH), the ninth bishop of Dunwich after the division of the East Anglian dioc
  • TIDFIRTHor Titrerp, the last of the ancient bishops of Hexham. He must have held that see at the very beginning of the ninth cen
  • TIGERNAO(Ticernacius, TYGERNACHUS, GerMAcius) (1), bishop of Clones, co. Monaghan, was one of the chief saints of Ireland in the
  • TIGRIUSa presbyter of Constantinople, closely attached to Chrysostom, and employed by him in carrying out his disciplinary meas
  • TILHEREthe seventh bishop of Worcester (Flor. Wig. I. H. B. 545, 623). According to Florence he succeeded Weremund in. the year
  • TILPINUS(Turpr), twenty-ninth bishop of Rheims, and archbishop, was appointed to the see when it had been all but desolated by t
  • TIMAHUSbishop of Antioch, the 17th in succession, succeeded Domnus A.D. 272, died and
  • TIMARCHIUSexcubitor, bearer of letters from the domestic Amandinus to Gregory the Great, and from the latter to the exarch. (Zpp.
  • TIMASIUS(8), almost always mentioned with Jacobus [JAcoBus (36), Vol. II. 335], but also as the bearer of a message to Augustine
  • TIMOCLESa writer of troparia, who lived — apparently at Constantinople, in the latter part of the 5th century. He is seldom ment
  • TIMOLAUSMarch 24, a native of Pontus, ' and martyr at Caesarea in Palestine, under Urbanus, with seven others (Hus. Mart. Palaes
  • TIMOTHEAlady of Ariminum. At her request Gregory the Great in A.D, 592 directed CasTORIvs (7) to consecrate on the usual conditi
  • TIMOTHEUS(1), a young man to whom Dionysius of Alexandria addressed some epistles on philosophy refuting the atomic theory of Dem
  • TITIANUSor Tatianus, the correspondent to whom Ambrose's Zp. lii. is addressed. (J. Ll. DJ
  • TITUSemperor. [VESPASIANUS. ]
  • TOBIAS(4), the fifth bishop of Jerusalem, the beginning of whose episcopate is placed in the fourth year of Hadrian, A.D. 121.
  • TOCCOAbishop. [TorTnELM.] -
  • TOLA(Tot, Torar, ToLaus) (1), bishop of Ardbraccan, co. Meath, died a.p. 765. (An ve | Tig.) {ay Gy
  • TOLMANNUScompanion and martyr with St. Killian at Wiirzburg, a.pD. 689, wrote Ad Gozbertum super Repudio cum Geilana, (Dempster,
  • TOMARSA[Tamusa.]
  • TOMENE(Tomranvs, TommEenr, TomMMIAN, Tomyn), bishop of Armagh. [THoMIAN.]
  • TONANTIUS(1), a defender of the faith in 'Spain against the Nestorians who were propagating their tenets there. He was addressed
  • TOPOSIn the Valentinian system the / DemruRGE was sometimes called by the name of the region where he dwelt, and over which h
  • TORAa bishop, subscribing the legatine council of Celchyth, 787. (Haddan and Stubbs, . 461.) [Tora.] [C, H.]
  • TORHTHELM(Torra, Tocca, Torca), the fourth bishop of the Middle Anglian see of" Leicester (JZ, H. B, 624), On the death of bishop
  • TORHTHEREthe third bishop of Hereford (WM. H. B. 621). He succeeded Tyrhtel between 693 and 716, in which latter year he attests
  • TOTAthe sixth bishop of Selsey, the successor of Giselhere and predecessor of Wiohthun: (I, H, B, p. 618). The name of this
  • TOTANRUSabbat, disciple and companion of St, Columba, flourished 4.D., 606 and wrote
  • TOTCAbishop.
  • TOTILA(Bavuma), chosen king by the Goths in the autumn of A.D. 541 on the murder of Erarich. A sufficient account of the event
  • TOTNANOUS(TuropHanvs, THOLMANNUS, THOTNANUS, TOKNANUS, TORNANUS, TOTHAT, TorHNaNnvus, TOTMANNUS, TorNam, ToTNaTus, Torrman, TOTUA
  • TOTTAanv TOTTAN, bishop (Kemble, C. D. 102, 112). [TorrHEnm.]
  • TOXOTIUSJulius Toxotius, husband of Paula, the friend of Jerome. He was, by ancestry, both Greek and Roman, being descended
  • TRAJANUSULPIUS (NERVA), emperor, belonged to a family of Italian origin settled in the colony of Italica in Baetica. He
  • TRAM
  • TRANQUILLINUS(1), a friend of Jerome and Oceanus, in Rome, at the end of the 4th century. He had written, in the year of 396, to spea
  • TRANQUILLUS(1), an imaginary bishop. of the "Chalcedouii of Syria," who, according: to Praedestinatus confuted the Noetians. [G.S.]
  • TRANSAMUNDUS ILduke of Spoleto: [Faroaupus IL, Grecorius (52, 53), LurrPRANDUS I.]. LF. Dal
  • TREBELLIUS POLLIOone of the Augustan historians. He wrote under Diocletian and Constantine. To him are ascribed biographies of the Valeri
  • TREDANabbat, 778-785. K.148*, Birch.
  • TREFERIUSbishop. [Ocravrus (6).]
  • TREMORINUSbishop of Caerleon, died A.D. 490, and was followed by St. Dubricius but we owe his name to Geoffrey of Monmoutl (Hist.
  • TRESANUS(Trussanus, Tesanus), con fessor at Avenay in France about the 6t! century. By the Scotch annalists (Boethius Lesley, De
  • TRIBUNUScleric of Sipontum.
  • TRIDUANA(Kipvana, TRADLIN, TRADWELL, TRALLEW, TREDDLES, TREDUANA, TRED- WALL, TREDWELL, TROLLHAENA, TRULLEN),
  • TRIFERIUSbishop. [Ocravius (4).]
  • TRIGETIUSan ex-prefect, with the ex-consul Avienus, accompanied pope Lxo the Great, q- v- on his mission to Attila in A.D. 452. H
  • TRIGUILLAmaster of the household of Theoderic, is accused by Boethius (De Cons. i. Pr. 4) of using his position for extortion and
  • TRILLO(TeR10, TaERrL10), Welsh saint, son of Ithael Hael, accompanied St. Cadfan from Armorica, and became a member of the col
  • TRINIO(Trriaw, Trmiawe, TRUNNYAY, TRUNYAW, TRYNYAV), Welsh saint, son of Difwng ap Emyr Llydaw, came with St. Cadfan from Armo
  • TRINITY, THE HOLY('H Gayla Tpids ; Sancta, Sanctissima Trinitas).
  • TRIPHYLLIUS(Triesyiivs), bishop of Ledra (otherwise Leuteon), in Cyprus, in the middle of the 4th century. He received his educatio
  • TRISCELIDAKa name bestowed by Praedestinatus on heretics, of whom Augustine tells (Taer. 74) that they looked on Father, Son, and H
  • TRITHEITESa subdivision of the Monophysites towards the end of the sixth century. They emphasised the personal distinctions in the
  • TROILUS(2), a bishop of Cyprus, who, it was stated by Rheginus of Constantia in his memorial to the council of Ephesus, had suf
  • TROJANUS(Trorianus, TROPHTANUS),. ST., sixth bishop of Saintes (circ. A.D. 511-532). According to Gregory of Téurs, who gives th
  • TROPHIMUS(1), Cyp. Zp. 55, 11 (Trofimus, Hartel), an Italian bishop (sacerdotii) who offered incense in the Decian persecution, a
  • TRUMHERIthe third bishop of the Mercians, Lindisfari, and Middle Angles, following Cellach, before the see was established; an:
  • TRUMWIN(Trivumwint), a missionary bishop, who was consecrated by Theodore in A.D. 681, and sent to labour among the Picts (Beda
  • TRYCHANbishop of Llandaff, in probably the second half of the 7th century; in his episcopate many grants were made to the see o
  • TRYGETIUS(1), a young man, and fellow citizen with Augustine in Africa, who haying served for a time in the army joined him toget
  • TRYPHO[See Jusrnvs (2), p. 570.]
  • TUBAsoldier, censured by Isidore of Pelusinus (lib. i. ep. 40) for wearing arms and mili- tary dress in the forum and about
  • TUDAbishop of Lindisfarne on the departure of St. Colman (A.D. 664); he was an Irish- man, educated and consecrated bishop i
  • TUDFRIDbishop. [TipFreRtH.]
  • TUDNO(TuutNo), Welsh saint early in the 6th century, son of Seithenyn and founder of Llandudno, Carnarvonshire, where a rocki
  • TUDWALsurnamed Befr (the fair), Welsh saint of the 5th century, son of Morfawr, Eurmur or Corinwr ap Cadfan, He is a favourite
  • TUENTIUSa Gallic bishop illegally consecrated by Proculus bishop of Marseilles, to the infringement of the jurisdiction of his m
  • TUNNAabbat of the monastery of Tunnacaestir, to which he gaye his name. In A.D. 679 a battle was fought-between Egfrith and E
  • TURBANTIUSan Italian bishop, who was one of the fellow sufferers of Julian of Evlana. ([Junranus (15).] It was to him that Julian
  • TURBO(1), a disciple of Manes, who sent him with an epistle to Marcellus of Caschar, who, with Aschelaus, the local bishop, c
  • TURENTIUSaddressed as "Dominus sublimis atque magnificus " by Ruricius, in a letter requesting him to send him a copy of St. Augu
  • TURNINUSconfessor, Irish priest and monk who laboured in the province of Antwerp and died there near the close of the 8th centur
  • TURNOALDUSbishop of Paris, present at a placitum under Clovis III. a.p. 693 (Diplomata vi, cc. 19, 23). He subscribed a privileyiu
  • TURPINarchbishop of Rheims, [TuPrn.]
  • TURPIOrelieved of a debt when near death at the intercession of Sidonius (Sidon. Zp. 24). ; SelB Siee IS)
  • TURRIANUSa pagan who was praetorian prefect in the 5th century. He violated the sanctuary of St. Piato's church at Ancyra by arre
  • TURRIBIUSbishop of Asturica (Astorga). In a letter to Leo the Great he enumerated the Priscillianist errors under sixteen heads.
  • TWENTY MARTYRS, THEcommemorated at Hippo Regius, In their church here and on their day, Augustine preached his Sermo 148. In another discou
  • TYDECHO(TrprEcHo), Welsh saint early in the 6th century. He accompanied his cousin St. Cadfan from Armorica to Wales, and with
  • TYFODWG(Tyrvopwe), Welsh saint early in the 6th century, is of unascertained _ CHRIST, BIOGR.—VOL. Iv.
  • TYFRYDOG(Tevrepavcus, TruryDAvc, TyvrepAuc, TyvRyD0G), Welsh saint in the second half of the 6th century; founder of Llandyfrydo
  • TYPETHE (6 rtvémos or 6 tdmos sep) mlotews). This was an imperial decree issued to impose silence on the combatants in the M
  • TYRANNIONbishop of Tyre, a martyr under Diocletian, commemorated in the Roman Martyrology, on Feb. 28. He suffered at Antioch, at
  • TYRANNUSbishop of Antioch, 19th in succession. He succeeded Cyrillus a.p. 302. His episcopate synchronizes with the persecution
  • TYRHTELthe second bishop of Hereford (M. H. B. 621). He must have succeeded bishop Putta some time before 693, for his name is
  • TYRI[See Searr.]
  • TYSILIO(Tyssit10, Tyssiutaw, TYSsILAV, TusstL1av), Welsh saint and poet, son of Brochwel Ysgythrog ap Cyngen, prince of Powys,
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