Vigilantius

Vigilantius, an opponent of monachism and of the worship of martyrs and relics, was born at Calagurris in western Gaul in the later half of the 4th century. Ordained a presbyter at Barcelona in 395, he journeyed to Jerusalem carrying a recommendation from Paulinus of Nola to Jerome, whose whole theological system was as completely repellent to him as his vehement and intolerant temper. From Jerome's Contra Vigilantium we gather that he denounced the worship of martyrs and relics as a relapse to paganism, vows of celibacy and poverty as unnatural and creating a fictitious scale of morality. See Lindner, De Joviano et Vigilantio (Leip. 1840).