The Donatists were also confirmed in this view by the status of the other church. Almost all the “Catholic” laymen were owners of vast estates, and the church itself was a great land-owner.

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The hard-liners – who came to be known as the Donatists, after their leader Donatus – argued that any compromise was wrong and tainted the apostolic succession from bishop to bishop. Augustine, though ...