seek subjects to govern. You would have more enemies than citizens remaining. For now it is the immense number of Christians which makes your enemies so few, almost all the inhabitants of your various cities being followers of Christ." ("Apologeticus" of Tertullian, cap. 37.)

APPENDIX F

A.D. 250-254

EXTRACT OF Letter from ST. CYPRIAN "TO HIS BROTHER STEPHEN." (POPE STEPHEN.)

"FAUST

AUSTINUS, our colleague, stationed at Lyons, has written to me . . . informing me .. that Marcianus, who is stationed at Arles, has joined himself to Novatian. . . . Wherefore it behoves you to write a very full letter to our fellow-bishops established in Gaul, that they no longer suffer the froward and proud Marcianus who this long while boasts and publishes that . . . he has separated himself from our communion.

"Let letters be addressed from thee to the Province and to the people dwelling at Arles, whereby Marcianus being excommunicated, another may be substituted in his room and the flock of Christ, which to this day is overlooked, scattered by him and wounded, be again collected together. Suffice it that many of our brethren in those parts have in these last years departed without the peace . . . at all events, let the rest who survive be holpen, who both groan day and night, and, entreating the mercy of our God and Father, implore the solace of our help.

'... Signify plainly to us who has been substituted at Arles in the place of Marcianus that we know to whom we should direct our brethren." (Letters of S. Cyprian, No. 68. Library of Fathers, Parker, Oxford, 1884.)

NOTE. "This epistle (No. 68) is found in six old MSS., and is ascertained to have existed in four others of which one was the very oldest. Its style is throughout Cyprian's, so that the question of its genuineness raised by Launoy was a mere theory" (Library of Fathers).

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APPENDIX H

A.D. 400.

HE Confession of St. Patrick was written by himself and directly copied in 807 A.D. by a scribe, "Ferdomnach." It is preserved in the Book of Armagh.

It begins :

"I, Patrick, a sinner, the rudest and least of all the faithful and the most despicable among most men, had for my father Calpornius, a deacon, son of the late Potitus, a presbyter, who was of the town of Bonaven Taberniæ; for he had a farm in the neighbourhood where I was taken captive. I was then sixteen years old. I knew not the true God, and I was carried in captivity to Hiberio with many thousands of men according to our deserts, because we had gone back from God and had not kept His commandments, and were not obedient to our priests, who used to warn us for our salvation."