A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin.

PETRONIUS.

PETRONIUS, a Person of great Sanctity, after he had been for some time a Monk, was chosen Bishop of Benonia. He was Co-temporary with Eucherius Bishop of Lyons, * 1.1 as appears by the Letter of this latter, written to Valerian, concerning the Contempt of the World. He is thought, saith G••nn••dius, the Author of some Lives of the Aegyptian Fa∣thers, whom the Monks look upon as the Model and Mirror of their Profession. I have read, saith the same Person, a Book concerning the Ordination of a Bishop, which bears the same Name, but the Elegancy of the Stile proves that it is not his, as some have thought it, but his Father Petr••nius's, who was a Man very Eloquent, and very well skilled in the most excellent Learning, for it is Noted in that Writing, that the Author was Praefectus Pratorio. He Died in the Reign of Theodosins, and Valentinian. S. Eucherius cites him in his Book of the Con••empt of the World. We have none of this Bishop's Works. Some Lives of the Fa∣thers are attributed to him, but they are supposititious.

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• * 1.1

  Petronius.