Volume II Part 25 (1/2)

Repugnance of the theological to the patriotic spirit, 145

Paul, St., his definition of conscience, i. 83

Paul, the hermit, his flight to the desert, ii. 102.

Legend of the visit of St. Antony to him, 158

Paul, St. Vincent de, his foundling hospitals, ii. 34

Paula, story of her asceticism and inhumanity, ii. 133, 134

Paulina, her devotion to her husband, ii. 310

Pelagia, St., her suicide, ii. 46.

Her flight to the desert, 121, and _note_

Pelagius, ii. 223

Pelican, legend of the, ii. 161

Penances of the saints of the desert, ii. 107, _et seq._

Penitential system, the, of the early church, ii. 6, 7

Pepin, his compact with Pope Leo, ii. 267

Peregrinus the Cynic, his suicide, i. 220

Pericles, his humanity, i. 228

Perpetua, St., her martyrdom, i. 391, 444; ii. 317

Persecutions, Catholic doctrines justifying, i. 98.

Why Christianity was not crushed by them, 395.

Many causes of persecution, 395-397.

Reasons why the Christians were more persecuted than the Jews, 403, 406, 407.

Causes of the persecutions, 406, _et seq._ History of the persecutions, 429.

Nero, 429.

Domitian, 431.

Trajan, 437.

Marcus Aurelius, 439, 440.

From M. Aurelius to Decius, 442, _et seq._ Gallus, 454.

Valerian, 454.

Diocletian and Galerius, 458-463.

End of the persecutions, 463.

General considerations on their history, 463-468

Petronian law, in favour of slaves, i. 307

Petronius, his scepticism, i. 162.

His suicide, 215.

His condemnation of the show of the arena, 286