St. John offered up his prayers for the members of the whole Catholic Church diffused throughout the world.” See p. 74.
CENT. IV.
St. Cyril OF JERUSALEM, G. C.—“Avoid the conventicles of those heretics : persevere in the Catholic Church[1], in which you were baptised. Should you come into a city, do not enquire merely for the House of God, for so heretics call their places of meeting ; nor yet ask merely for the Church; but say, the Catholic Church,—for this is the proper name."–Catech. xviii. n. xxvi. p. 297.
St. PACIANUS, L. C.-“ In the time of the Apostles, you will say, no one was called Catholic. Be it so: but when heresies afterwards began, and under different names, attempts were made to disfigure and divide our holy religion, did not the Apostolic People require a name, whereby to mark their Unity; a proper appellation to distinguish the head? Accidentally entering a populous city, where are Marcionites, Novatians, and others who call themselves Christians, how shall I discover where my own people meet, unless they be called Catholics? I may not know the origin of the name; but what has not failed through so long a time, came not surely from any individual man. It has nothing to say to Marcion, nor Apelles, nor Montanus. No heretic is its author.-Is the authority of Apostolic men, of the blessed Cyprian, of so many aged Bishops, so many Martyrs and
- ↑ Dr. Bull, in his Judicium Eccl. Cathol. c. vi. p. 53, observes, that from this letter of the Church of Smyrna,“ it is clear that the surname of Catholic was given to the Church of Christ, even in those times, which immediately followed the age of the Apostles.”
