A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations/Apostolics

by Hannah Adams

APOSTOLICS, a denomination in the twelfth century, who professed to exhibit in their lives and manners the piety and virtues of the holy apostles. They held it unlawful to take an oath, renounced the things of this world, and preferred celibacy to wedlock.^[1]

Original footnotes

1. Mosheim. vol. ii. p. 457.