Valesians

The Valesians or Valerians were a heretical Christian sect of the third century named after their founder, the Arab Valesius. She detested marriage and castrated its followers, and rejected the law and the prophets. Their self-mutilation was preceded by the example of Origen , who referred to Matt. 19.12 is said to have castrated himself. Their teaching was condemned at a synod in 249.

The Eunuchismus in the early Christian church was built by St. Basil the Great , John Chrysostom and Augustine and Pope Leo I fought hard.

In the novel The Temptation of Saint Anthony ( La tentation de Saint Antoine ) by the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880), the Valesians also appear.

See also

• Cybele and Attis cult
• Skopzen

literature

• Ionel Rapaport : Introduction a la psychopathologie collective la secte mystique des Skoptzy . Erka, Paris 1949.
• Otto von Corvin : The Geissler . Section: The Valerians (Otto von Corvin: The Geisslers - The Valerians in the Gutenberg-DE project ).
• Victor Méric: Le Crime des Vieux . ( Wikisource ).
• François-André-Adrien Pluquet: Eunuchs or Valesians . In: Heretic Lexicon . S. 487-490 ( books.google.de ).
• Valesians . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 18 . Altenburg 1864, p. 344 ( zeno.org ).

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{a b} Valesians . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 18 . Altenburg 1864, p. 344 ( zeno.org ).
2. ↑ Victor Méric: Le Crime des Vieux ( Wikisource )
3. ↑ mediterranees.net