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16-436: Philastrius was born around 330 and ordained at the age of 30. According to Butler , "We know nothing of this saint’s country, only that he quitted it and the house and inheritance of his ancestors, like Abraham, the more perfectly to disengage himself from the ties of the world." He traveled over nearly the whole Roman world (circumambiens Universum pene ambitum Romani Orbis ), preaching against pagans, and heretics, especially

32-480: A "part 2" issued thus: vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3, vol. 3 part 2, vol. 4, and vol. 4 part 2. Each "volume" contained three months of the liturgical calendar's Saints' lives. Vol. 1 also had a copperplate engraving with figures of the Roman devices of torture used, and a 2-page explanation of their use. Charles Butler's assertion that "all the notes" were left out of the first edition at the suggestion of Bishop Challoner

48-599: Is a popular and compendious reproduction of the Acta Sanctorum , exhibiting great industry and research, and is in all respects the best compendium of Acta in English. Butler's magnum opus has passed many editions and translations. This edition was printed initially in 4 octavo volumes, with no stated publisher or author's name. However they were so thick that they were usually bound in more volumes. There were actually 6 title pages since Vol. 3 and Vol. 4 both have

64-462: Is exaggerated. There are many useful, and even extended, notes in the first edition, but not to the extent that they appear in the second, and succeeding editions. According to Charles Knight, the 1847 edition published in twelve volumes is considered the best and most complete. Since Fr. Butler published his original edition of his Lives , many successors have revised and updated the work. Father Herbert Thurston , SJ, edited and significantly rewrote

80-627: The Arians . Like Paul of Tarsus he was scourged for his zeal against the Arians. In Milan he was a great pillar of the Catholic party in the time of Ambrose's Arian predecessor, Auxentius. Augustine of Hippo met him at Milan about 383, or perhaps a little later. At Rome he held both private and public disputations with heretics, and converted many. His wanderings ceased when he was made Bishop of Brescia . He died some time before 387. Philastrius

96-616: The Nasaraioi or Nazoraioi which Epiphanius attempts to distinguish. [REDACTED]  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). " St. Philastrius ". Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company. Alban Butler Alban Butler (13 October 1710 – 15 May 1773) was an English Roman Catholic priest and hagiographer . Born in Northamptonshire , he studied at

112-796: The English College, in Douai, where he later taught philosophy and theology. He served as guide on the Grand Tour to the nephews of the Earl of Shrewsbury. Upon his return in 1749, Butler was made chaplain to the Duke of Norfolk. He was appointed president of the English seminary at Saint Omer in France. Butler is mainly known for his Lives of the Saints , the result of thirty years of work. Alban Butler

128-727: The Hon. Edward Howard, Butler accompanied to Paris as tutor. While he was in Paris, Butler completed his Lives . He laboured for some time as a missionary priest in Staffordshire , and was finally appointed president of the English seminary at Saint Omer in France , where he remained until his death. During his term as President of the English seminary, Butler also served the bishops of Arras, Saint-Omer, Ypres, and Boulogne-Sur-Mer as their Vicar-General. Butler died in Saint-Omer in 1773 and

144-545: The defeat at the Battle of Fontenoy . Around 1746, Butler served as tutor and guide on the Grand Tour to James and Thomas Talbot , nephews of Gilbert Talbot, 13th Earl of Shrewsbury. Their elder brother, George, succeeded their uncle as 14th Earl of Shrewsbury . Both James and Thomas Talbot later became Catholic bishops. Butler returned to England in 1749 and was made chaplain to the Duke of Norfolk , whose nephew and heir,

160-515: The genuineness of the sermon in question by linguistic arguments. His Bollandist reviewer thought he has made a strong case ( Anal. Boll. , XXVIII, 224). Philastrius composed a catalogue of heresies ( Diversarum Hereseon Liber ) about 384. Richard Adelbert Lipsius discovered that in Philastrius's "Catalogue" of heresies, for the Christian heresies up to Noetus , the compiler drew from

176-557: The genuineness of this sermon. Friedrich Marx thought the sermon a forgery of the eighth or ninth century. The chief objection to its genuineness, rather a weak one, seems to be that it is not found in the manuscripts containing the undoubted sermons of Gaudentius. Marx was answered by Knappe, "Ist die 21 Rede des hl. Gaudentius (Oratio B. Gaudentii de Vita et Obitu B. Filastrii episcopi prædecessoris sui) echt? Zugleich ein Betrag zur Latinität des Gaudentius" (Osnabrück), who endeavoured to prove

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192-541: The same source as Epiphanius of Salamis , i. e. the lost Syntagma of Hippolytus . By the aid, therefore, of these two and the Pseudo-Tertullian Adversus Omnes Haereses it has been possible in great measure to reconstruct the lost treatise of Hippolytus. Philastrius' comments and spellings do not always accord with those of Epiphanius or Pseudo-Tertullian, for example his description of Nazaraei does not match well with either

208-457: Was at Douai that he began his principal work The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs and Other Principal Saints . He also prepared material for Richard Challoner 's Memoirs of Missionary Priests , a work on the martyrs of the reign of Elizabeth . In 1745, Butler came to the attention of the Duke of Cumberland , younger son of King George II, for his devotion to the wounded English soldiers during

224-547: Was born in 1710, at Appletree, Aston le Walls , Northamptonshire, the second son of Simon Butler, Esq. His father died when he was young and he was sent to the Lancashire boarding school run by Dame Alice . He went on to a Catholic further education at the English College, Douai , in France. In 1735 Butler was ordained a priest. At Douai, he was appointed professor of philosophy, and later professor of theology. It

240-533: Was buried in the ancient cathedral of St Andrew at Brescia. He is venerated as a Saint by the Catholic Church on 18 July each year, as noted in the latest official edition of the Roman Martyrology . Among the writings of Gaudentius of Brescia was a sermon purporting to be preached on the fourteenth anniversary of Philastrius's death. Historians such as Louis Ellies du Pin have questioned

256-542: Was buried in the parish church of Saint-Denis. See An Account of the Life of A. B. by C. B. , i.e. by his nephew Charles Butler (London, 1799); and Joseph Gillow 's Bibliographical Dictionary of English Catholics , vol. i. Butler's great work, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints ("Butler's Lives "), the result of thirty years' study, was first published in four volumes in London, 1756–1759. It

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