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Optatus and Schism
The schism that separated the Church after the Great Persecution was between the Donatistis and the Catholics and it was a fierce division amongst the early believers of Christianity. Donatists believed that the new Church after the Great Persecution should become a church of holy people, not a group of treacherous degenerates. In Africa, the… Continue reading