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Circumcellions
The Circumcellions or Agonisticis (as called by Donatists) were bands of Berbers considered as heretical〔 ''it has been suggested that they may have been of Berber blood''〕 Christian extremists in North Africa in the early- to mid-4th century.〔.〕 They were initially concerned with remedying social grievances, but they became linked with the Donatist sect.〔 They condemned property and slavery, and advocated free love, canceling debt, and freeing slaves. Donatists prized martyrdom and had a special devotion for the martyrs, rendering honours to their graves.
The term "Circumcellions" was coined by others, based on "circum cellas euntes", ''they go around larders'', because "they roved about among the peasants, living on those they sought to indoctrinate."〔
==Background==
The Circumcellions regarded martyrdom as the true Christian virtue (as the early Church Father Tertullian said, "a martyr's death day was actually his birthday"), and thus disagreed with the Episcopal see of Carthage on the primacy of chastity, sobriety, humility, and charity. Instead, they focused on bringing about their own martyrdom.
On occasion, members of this group assaulted Roman legionaries or armed travelers with simple wooden clubs to provoke them into attacking and martyring them. Others interrupted courts of law and verbally provoked the judge so that he would order their immediate execution (a normal punishment at the time for contempt of court). The sect survived until the fifth century in Africa.
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