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.

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Title: 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.
Author: Du Pin, Louis Ellies, 1657-1719.
Publication: London :: Printed for Abel Swalle and Tim. Thilbe ...,; MDCXCIII [1693]
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DINAMIUS.

SIgibert of Gemblours places Dinamius among Ecclesiastical Writers, to whom he gives the Title of Illustrious and Noble; and he says, that he wrote the Life of St. Marius, Abbot of a Monaste∣ry in the Valley of the Vaudois. We have an Abridgment of the Life of this Abbot in the first Bene∣dictine * 1.1 Age of Mr. Mabillon, p. 105. and there is also the Life of Maximus Abbot of Lerina, which is related by Surius, and attributed to Dinamius. St. Gregory has written two Letters, 33. Ind. 11. 33. Ind. 15. to Dinamius a Noble-man in Gaul, and Governor of Marseilles. We learn also from St. Gregory, that he joyn'd his House to a Monastery, in honour of St. Cassianus, B. 6. Ep. 12. Ind. 15. This Dinamius died in 601, as appears by Letter 70 of B. 9. of St. Gregory, written to his Bro∣ther Aurelius to comfort him upon his death. Therefore Dinamius, who under Childebert the second, plac'd two Bishops against the King's will, one at Uretia, and the other at Marseilles, as is report∣ed in Gregory of Tours, B. 6. Hist. c. 7. was different from this Dinamius. Whether of the two is the Author of these Lives, if the same Person be the Author of them both, or if one is the Author of the Life of Marius, and the other of that of Maximus, is very difficult to divine.

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