Faustus the Manichaean accuses the Catholics of idolatry.
Vertitis idola in martyres . . . quos votis
similibus colitis. M. de Beausobre (Hist. Critique du
Manicheisme, tom. ii. p. 629-700),
a protestant, but a philosopher, has represented, with candour and learning, the introduction of Christian idolatry in the fourth and fifth centuries.