74. The Presbyter Vigilantius, the protestant of his age,
firmly, though ineffectually, withstood the superstition of
monks, relics, saints, fasts, etc., for which Jerom compares
him to the Hydra, Cerberus, the Centaurs, etc., and
considers him only as the organ of the Daemon (tom. ii. p.
120-126 [tom. ii. p. 387-402, ed. Vallars.]). Whoever will
peruse the controversy of St. Jerom and Vigilantius, and St.
Augustin's account of the miracles of St. Stephen, may
speedily gain some idea of the spirit of the Fathers.