A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations/Circumcellians

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CIRCUMCELLIANS, (in Latin Cicumcelliones,) a branch of the Donatists. They abounded chiefly in Africa. They had no fixed abode; but rambled about begging, or rather exacting a maintenance from the country people.[1]


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  1. Broughton, vol. i. p. 249.