Priscillian (Priscillianus)

Priscillian; Priscillianus, OK. 340-385 years. n. e., Latin Christian writer. Bishop of Avila, founder of the heresy called pristsillianstvo. After his conviction in the synod in Tsezaroguste (sovr. Zaragoza, 380) and Burdigalii (sovr. Bordeaux; 384) AP, not wishing to appear before the ecclesiastical court, appealed to the emperor, the pretender to Maxim. Yet along with his supporters, was sentenced to death in Treviso. Although the composition P. (11 treatises, among them an apology and so-called canons of St. Paul to the messages) and found at the end of XIX century., His teaching has not yet been clarified.