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- noun Plural form of
Quartodeciman .
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Those who kept Easter with the Jews were called Quartodecimans or terountes (observants); but even in the time of Pope Victor this usage hardly extended beyond the churches of Asia Minor.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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Those who continued to keep Easter with the Jews were called Quartodecimans (14
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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Bishop Victor I of Rome, excommunicated the Quartodecimans then apparently led by Polycrates of Ephesus for not adhering to the Paschal practices of the majority of Christians.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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Others followed the example of the Jews, and adhered to the 14th of the moon; but these, as usually happened to the minority, were accounted heretics, and received the appellation of Quartodecimans.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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Arians, Macedonians, Manichees, and Quartodecimans, whom he banished out of his diocese.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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Quartodecimans, and others, and who received neither the Gospel of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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In 190 or 191 he interceded with Pope Victor to lift the sentence of excommunication laid by that pontiff upon the Christian communities of Asia Minor which persevered in the practice of the Quartodecimans in regard to the celebration of Easter.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Quartodecimans seem to have gradually dwindled away.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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The working of the "Catalogus" seems to imply that the first and second orders were Quartodecimans, but this is clearly not the meaning, or on the same argument the third order must have been partly Sextodecimans -- if there were such things -- and moreover we have the already mentioned statement of St. Wilfred, the opponent of the Celtic Easter, at the Synod of Whitby, that such was not the case.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Pope Victor decided, therefore, to bring about unity in the observance of the Easter festival and to persuade the Quartodecimans to join in the general practice of the Church.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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