_Damasus_ was far more successful in suppressing the Schism of _Ursinus_, which about this time was revived at _Rome_. The Emperor _Valentinian_, some time before, by a Rescript addressed to _Ampelius_ Governor, and _Maximinus_ Vicar of _Rome_, had allowed _Ursinus_, and the leading Men of his Party, who had been confined with him to _Gaul_, Liberty to live where they pleased, provided they kept out of _Rome_, and the Suburbicarian Provinces[1056]. This Indulgence shewn by the Emperor to _Ursinus_, encouraged his Followers in _Rome_ to declare openly in his Favour, and even to assemble apart from those who communicated with _Damasus_. But, being therein opposed by the Party of _Damasus_ with their usual Violence, new Disturbances arose, and the City was upon the point of becoming again the Scene of a Civil War. [Sidenote: _who are banished._] _Simplicius_, then Vicar of _Rome_, at the Request of _Damasus_, gave the Emperor immediate Notice of the approaching Danger; and the Emperor, in Answer to his Letter, sent him a Rescript, commanding _all those who, in Contempt of Religion, held or frequented unlawful Assemblies, to be banished an Hundred Miles from_ Rome, _that their Obstinacy might hurt none but themselves_[1057]. Thus for the present a Stop was put to the Disorders that had begun to reign in the City. [Sidenote: _The_ Luciferians_ persecuted by_ Damasus.] The two Presbyters _Marcellinus_ and _Faustinus_ pretend, that this Law was levelled at the _Ursinians_ alone, but was interpreted by _Damasus_, as comprehending the _Luciferians_, or the Followers of _Lucifer_ Bishop of _Cagliari_, who, refusing to communicate with the Bishops who signed the Confession of _Rimini_, and with all who communicated with them, had separate Assemblies at _Rome_, and even a Bishop of their own, named _Aurelius_. But _Damasus_, say they, using them, in virtue of the above-mentioned Law, with no less Cruelty than he did the _Ursinians_, they thenceforth assembled only in the Night, under a Presbyter, named _Macarius_, of whose Sanity and Austerities they relate wonderful Things. But Night and Darkness could not protect them against the persecuting Spirit of _Damasus_, whose Clerks, breaking one Night in upon them, while they were performing Divine Service in a private House, dispersed the Congregation, seized _Macarius_, and dragging him along with them over the sharp Flints, by which he was cruelly bruised, and dangerously wounded in the Thigh, they kept him the remaining Part of the Night closely confined. Next Morning he was carried before the Judge, who, finding him inflexible in rejecting the Communion of _Damasus_, condemned him to Exile; but the holy Presbyter, being arrived at _Ostia_, died there of his Wounds[1058]. The same Authors add, that _Damasus_ caused several Catholic Presbyters to be sent into Exile, and some Laymen; but that _Aurelius_, the _Luciferian_ Bishop, in spite of