Pelagius

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Born: 360? AD
Died: 420? AD.

Nationality: British
Categories: Monks


360 BC - Pelagius was born.

400 BC - He became better known, when he moved to Rome to write and teach about his ascetic practices.

405 BC - It is said that Pelagius heard a quotation from Augustine's work Confessions,

          - He found a scandalously low tone of morality prevalent.

410 BC - Pelagius and his close follower Caelestius fled to Carthage where he continued his work and briefly encountered St. Augustine in person.

415 BC - Pelagius lived unmolested and revered, until in 415 Orosius, a Spanish priest, came from Augustine, who in the meantime had written his De peccatorum meritis, to warn Jerome against him.

420 BC - Pelagius probably died in Palestine, as reported by some. Others mention him living as many as twenty years later. The cause of his death is unknown, but the prevailing rumours suggest either that he was killed by his enemies in the Catholic Church, or that he left Rome in frustration and headed into Africa or the Middle East.

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