Honora'tus Antoni'nus
bishop of Constantia in Africa, flourished during the persecution of the Catholics by the Vandal Genseric.
Works
He is the author of an impressive and graceful letter entitled
Epistola ad Labores pro Christo ferendos Exhortatoria, written about A. D. 437-440 to a certain Spaniard named Arcadius, who having been banished on account of his faith, is here comforted and encouraged to endure still greater hardships in support of the truth.
Editions
This epistle was first published by Jo. Sichardus in his
Antidot. contra omnes Haereses, fol. Basil. 1528, and will be found in the
Magna Bibl. Patr., fol. Colon. 1618, vol. v. p. iii., in
Bibl. Patr. fol. Paris, 1644 and 1654. vol. iii., in the
Bibl. Patr. Max., Lugd. fol. 1677, vol. viii. p. 665, and in Ruinart's
Historia Persecutionis Vandalicae, 8vo. Paris, 1694, pt. 2.100.4. p. 433.
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