Did Athanasius cut up a heretic w/scallop shell?

[nordskoven]

My ex-Catholic acquaintance said Athanasius de-boned some heretic with a sharpened scallop shell. Any background here? Pray for those who have fallen away esp. Ronald Joseph; and may the Lord keep us faithful and true.

 

[JM3]

newadvent.org/cathen/02035a.htm

The Bishop of Nicomedia thereupon brought various ecclesiastical and political charges against Athanasius, which, though unmistakably refuted at their first hearing, were afterwards refurbished and made to do service at nearly every stage of his subsequent trials. Four of these were very definite, to wit: that he had not reached the canonical age at the time of his consecration; that he had imposed a linen tax upon the provinces; that his officers had, with his connivance and authority, profaned the Sacred Mysteries in the case of an alleged priest names Ischyras; and lastly that he had put one Arenius to death and afterwards dismembered the body for purposes of magic. The nature of the charges and the method of supporting them were vividly characteristic of the age. The curious student will find them set forth in picturesque detail in the second part of the Saint’s “Apologia”, or “Defense against the Arians”, written long after the events themselves, about the year 350, when the retractation of Ursacius and Valens made their publication triumphantly opportune.

 

[FCEGM]

My ex-Catholic acquaintance said Athanasius de-boned some heretic with a sharpened scallop shell. Any background here? Pray for those who have fallen away esp. Ronald Joseph; and may the Lord keep us faithful and true.

Given the true story as JM has presented, you might ask your acquaintance why he is more impressed by the lies of the Arian heretic than the witness of the orthodox Athanasius?