1059–1079: examinations · person
Berengarius
Berengarius appears with Bruno of Angiers in Martyrs’ Mirror’s accounts of teaching about baptism and the Lord’s Supper. The book follows the condemnation of their views and Berengarius’s repeated examinations before church councils.
The account does not hide his concessions under pressure: it relates his recantations and his return to the convictions for which he had been examined. Its heading spans the first and last proceedings from 1059 to 1079. Later accounts describe the treatment of people called Berengarians.
Sources for this history: [1] [2]
References
- Bruno, bishop of angiers, and berengarius, his deacon, condemned in several councils, through the roman pope, on account of their views against infant baptism, transubstantiation, the mass, etc.; the first time, a. d. 1059, the last time, a. d. 1079.
- Many of the followers of berengarius, called berengarians, anathematized by order of the pope, at piacenza, in italy, a. d. 1095, and afterwards persecuted unto death, about a. d. 1100.
