GREGORY of Baetica.
GREGORY, Bishop of Elvira, a City of the Province of Baetica in Spain, wrote divers Trea∣tises in a low Stile, and an elegant Book concerning the Faith; which were extant in the latter * 1.1 End of St Jerom's time. We have in the Fragments of St. Hilary, a Letter of Eusebius of Vercellae to this Bishop, where he commends him for the Constancy wherewith he defended the Faith of the Church, and resisted Hosius. Marcellus and Faustinus the Luciferians, tell us, in their Letter to Valentinian the Emperour, That Hosius being ready to condemn him, was miraculously thrown upon the Ground, and lost the use of his Speech. But there is no probability that this Relation should be true, as we have already shown, when we Discours'd of Hosius. St. Jerom, in his Chronicle, joyns this Bishop, with Lucifer Calaritanus, and observes, that they would never have any Corre∣spondence with those that were suspected of Arianism. This joyn'd with the Honourable mention that Marcellinus and Faustinus make of this Bishop, may induce us to believe, that he was of the Judgment and Party of Lucifer. He flourish'd from the Year 357, till the latter End of that Cen∣tury. The Ancients speak of him as a simple, plain, sincere Man, but a zealous Defender of the Faith. His Stile was no ways Sublime, if we believe St. Jerom. There have been printed under his Name at Rome, in the Year 1575, and in the Two first Editions of the Bibliothecae Patrum, seven little Treatises against the Arians, which are thought to be the same with the Book concerning the Faith cited by St. Jerom: But it has since been discover'd, that they were written by Faustinus a Luciferian Deacon, to whom the Abbot Trithemius attributes them. They are address'd to the Em∣press Galla Placidia, Sister to the Emperour Honorius, which discovers that they rather belong to Faustinus than Gregory of Baetica, who was dead when Placidia had the Title of Empress.