Milevis, and also to that of Carthage, held the same year, being brought to Africa, St. Augustin said: “The decisions of the two Councils having been already sent to the Apostolic See, the rescripts are also come from thence. The cause is now finished, would to God that the error may at last have an end.” Serm. 11, al. cxxxi. n. 10. T.x. p. 95. Paris, 1586.
St. CELESTINE,POPE.[1]—Being well informed that Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople, taught false doctrine in his Church, he commissioned St. Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria, in his name, to proceed against him, and to deprive him of the communion of the Church, unless he retracted his error. “Wherefore you,” says the Pope, “with the Authority of this See, and acting in our name, place, and power, shall execute this sentence, with the utmost rigour, viz.; that if, within ten days, to be counted from the day on which this our admonition is signified to him, he does not in express terms anathematise his wicked doctrine, your Holiness shall immediately provide for that See, and he shall know that he is excommunicated.” Ep. ad Cyrillum, Conc. Gen. T. iii. p. 349.
The Bishops of the general Council of Ephesus, more than 200 in number, thought it their duty to comply with the injunction of Pope Celestine. “Compelled ” they say, “ by the sacred Canons, and by the Epistle of our most Holy Father, and Fellow-Minister, Celestine, Bishop of the Church of Rome, bathed in tears, we proceed to pronounce this doleful sentence against him.” Act. 1. Conc. Gen. T. 111. p. 533 See p. 153.
JUVENAL, PATRIARCH OF JERUSALEM, spoke thus in the 4th Action.—“It was the duty of John, the most Reverend Bishop of Antioch, considering this holy, great, and gene-
- ↑ He succeeded to the Chair of St. Peter on the death of Boniface I, in 422, and governed the Church nearly ten years. His letters are found in Dom. Coustant's Collection, and in Labbe's Councils.
