2nd or 3rd century Christian splinter religion.

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Hi,

There doesn’t seem to be a sub-forum that addresses the history of Christianity/Catholicism, so I thought I would put this question here.

A year ago I was researching something and made a accidental discovery of a Christian sect that flourished in the 2nd or 3rd century Egypt.

Specific to their make up was:
  • they live in the Egyptian desert (in camps)
  • they chanted the name of the devil (or whatever he was called then) as a means of attracting him to where they were so his evil ways could not affect the world.
  • their leader was a man who came from Europe, who had broken with whatever stripe of Christianity he was following to lead this sect.
  • they were considered Heretics (naturally) by what might be called “mainstream” Christianity at the time.
I read the above and decided to come back to it later. Sadly, I never made a note of where I read this.

I have tried to find the origins of what I read and the closest I came was Manichæism.

But that doesn’t seem to be it.

Does this ring a bell with anyone?

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This is the right forum. Not sure who that would be. I’d agree that it probably isn’t Manicheanism.

That there leader was from Europe probably isn’t as noteworthy as it would have been a few hundred years later. Travel was still relatively easy at that point.
 
Thank you. If I can find who they were I will update this thread.

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I think they found out soon enough that the method was flawed
 
It could have been a splinter group, but I don’t remember if their ethos having any gnostic beliefs. But it is a good place to look. Thanks. 🙂
 
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