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APOSTOLICI, APOSTOLIC BRETHREN, or APOSTLES, the names given to various Christian heretics, whose common doctrinal feature was an ascetic rigidity of morals, which made them reject property and marriage. The earliest Apostolici appeared in Phrygia, Cilicia, Pi ...

APOSTOLIUS, MICHAEL (d. c. 1480), a Greek theologian and rhetorician of the isth century. When, in 1453, the Turks conquered Constantinople, his native city, he fled to Italy, and there obtained the protection of Cardinal Bessarion. But engaging in the great d

ARGOSTOLI (anc. Cephallenia) , the capital of Cephalonia (one of the Ionian islands), and the seat of a bishop of the Greek church. Pop. about 10,000. It possesses an excellent harbour, a quay a mile in length, and a fine bridge. Shipbuilding and silk-spinning

... these " Fathers " as a special group exists already in the title " Patres aevi apostolici, sive SS. Patrumquitemporibusapostolicis floruerunt . . . opera," under which in 1672 J. B. Cotelier published at Paris the writings current under the names of Barnabas, ...

... , a sect of early Christians, who renounced all their worldly possessions. (See APOSTOLICI ad inil.)