Four other Bishops, _viz._ _Herenius_, _Donatus_, _Acurius_, and _Æmilius_, could by no means be induced to follow the Example of _Symphosius_ and _Dictinius_; and were thereupon deposed by the Council, and cut off from the Communion of the Catholic Church. [Sidenote: _The Acts of that Council confirmed by St._ Ambrose _and_ Syricius.] The Bishops of _Rome_ and _Milan_ not only confirmed the Acts of the Council with respect to _Symphosius_ and _Dictinius_, but separated themselves from the Communion of the Bishops of _Bætica_ and the _Carthagenese_, who, thinking the Council had dealt too favourably with them, refused to admit them to their Communion[1260]. [Sidenote: Dictinius _honoured as a Saint_.] _Dictinius_ died in 420. and is now honoured in _Spain_ as a Saint, though it may be justly questioned whether he deserves that Honour. _Idatius_ the Chronologist who was a Native of _Spain_, and raised there to the Episcopal Dignity about the Year 428. mentions him without saying any thing in his Praise, or taking the least Notice of his being honoured then as a Saint. St. _Austin_ speaks doubtfully even of his Conversion[1261], and at the same time tells us, that his Book was highly esteemed by the _Priscillianists_, and his Memory no less revered; which, notwithstanding the eminent Sanctity ascribed to him by _Baronius_[1262], gives us room to suspect, that the Honour now paid him is owing to a Tradition handed down by the _Priscillianists_. [Sidenote: Priscillian _honoured as a Saint and a Martyr_.] For thus was _Priscillian_ himself once revered both as a Saint and a Martyr. Nay, the Author of the Notes on _Sulpitius Severus_ assures us, that he has seen his Name in some, not very antient, Martyrologies; and _Petrus de Natalibus_ has allowed, both to him, and to _Latronianus_, who suffered with him, a Place among the Martyrs of the Church, pretending to be countenanced therein by the Authority of _Jerom_[1263]. And truly it must be owned, that _Jerom_, in the Year 392. writ very favourably of _Priscillian_. _He was executed_, says he, _by the Faction of_ Ithacius, _being accused by some as if he had embraced the Heresy of the_ Gnostics; _but others maintained, that he held not the Doctrine and Tenets with which he was charged_[1264]. But being afterwards better informed, he styles him _an execrable Man_[1265], and condemns his Doctrine as an _infamous Heresy_, as a _Plague_ and _Contagion_, that cruelly ravaged most of the _Spanish_ Provinces[1266]. It is not therefore without Reason that the Church of _Rome_ now anathematizes, as an Heretic, the Man she once revered as a Saint. Such has been the Fate of many others, judged by _Baronius_ himself unworthy of the Worship that was paid them, and therefore set aside, when, by the Command of _Gregory_ XIII. he revised and corrected the _Roman Martyrology_. As for _Dictinius_, he has not yet been driven out of Heaven, though nobody can well tell how he came in.