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                St. Epiphanius of Salamis, Catholic Bishop of Cyprus Who are Collyridians?   St. Epiphanius of Salamis had condemned Mary Worshipping as an Idolatry and Polytheism as on Panarion during his life .  The existence of the obscure sect of the Collyridians, whom St. Epiphanius (d. 403) denounces for their sacrificial offering of cakes to Mary, may fairly be held to prove that even before the Council of Ephesus there was a popular veneration for the Virgin Mother which threatened to run extravagant lengths. Hence Epiphanius laid down the rule: " Let Mary be held in honour. Let the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost be adored, but let no one adore Mary " (ten Marian medeis prosknueito). " There are certain women in largely-pagan Arabia syncretised indigenous beliefs with the worship of Virgin Mary and offered little cakes or bread-rolls .  The cakes were called collyris (Greek: κολλυρίς) and are the s...

      Before we talk about Tertullian and Origen, we want to take some Magisterium teaching about one Heresy can sever peoples from Catholic Church :   Pope Leo XIII Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 9), June 29, 1896:  “The practice of the Church has always been the same, as is shown by the unanimous teaching of the Fathers, who were wont to hold as outside Catholic communion, and alien to the Church, whoever would recede in the least degree from any point of doctrine proposed by her authoritative Magisterium .” Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 9):  “ No one who merely disbelieves in all (these heresies) can for that reason regard himself as a Catholic or call himself one . For there may be or arise some other heresies, which are not set out in this work of ours, and, if any one holds to a single one of these he is not a Catholic .”                                   Pope Pi...