mansionarius

Updated: May 2, 2025

There was the old mansionarius or sacristan; there were two or three pious women, married or single, who owed their religion to good mothers; there were some slaves who kept to their faith, no one knew how or why; there were a vast many persons who ought to be Catholics, but were heretics, or nothing at all, or all but pagans, and sure to become pagans on the asking; there were Agellius and his brother Juba, and how far these two had a claim to the Christian name we now proceed to explain.

John Henry Newman - Callista : a Tale of the Third Century

About 541, Adad, the king of Ethiopia, was converted by the preaching of Mansionarius; the Heruli beyond the Danube, were now made obedient to the faith, and the Abasgi, near the Caucasian Mountains.

William Carey - An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens : In Which the Religious State of the Different Nations of the World, the Success of Former Undertakings, and the Practicability of Further Undertakings, Are Considered

On the afternoon of the Saturday in Easter week, say these writers, the priests of the eighteen principal 'deaconries' an ecclesiastical division of the city long ago abolished and now somewhat obscure caused the bells to be rung, and the people assembled at their parish churches, where they were received by a 'mansionarius, probably meaning here 'a visitor of houses, and a layman, who was arrayed in a tunic, and crowned with the flowers of the cornel cherry.

F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford - Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1: Studies from the Chronicles of Rome