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McClintock and Strong’s Cyclopaedia · 1867–1887

Celer, (1), proconsul of Africa A.D. 429, is addressed by Augustine (Hist. 56, 57, or 237, 210) as a Donatist. He was anxious to know if the African Donatists had any good reason for severing themselves from the Catholics. (2) Martyr of the primitive Welsh Church, was patron of Llangeler, in Carmarthenshire.

Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, John McClintock and James Strong (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1867–1887). Public domain. Text from SwordSearcher’s module, as published by biblicalcyclopedia.com. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: titles misread in our source corrected from the Internet Archive’s scans of the printed volumes; paragraphs our source broke mid-sentence joined.