Word: pelagian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expression . . . is demanded ... by these peasants of me, a man of Rome!" In 396, with the barbarians pressing in on all sides, Jerome sadly wrote: "Romanus orbis ruit [the world of Rome is destroyed]." In 416 the troubles of the times were brought to his doorstep. A band of Pelagian heretics, whom he had recently attacked in his writings, assaulted and wrecked his monastery. Jerome spent three or four years in refuge nearby. Then, weary with age and controversy, the holy but irascible hermit died...