"Valesiane"

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The Valesians, or Valisians, or Valisians, are a Christian sect of the third century. According to the testimony of St. Epiphanius of Cyprus, it originated about 240 in Philadelphia and got its name from Valesius, who, following the example of Origen, stained himself, preaching perfect “mortification of the flesh” and vegetarianism. When followers began to gather around Valesia, the Philadelphia bishop excommunicated them from the church, and the Valesians retired to Stone Arabia. The First Council of Nicaea condemned the enclosure, and the Valesians have since disappeared.

Valicia is mentioned by Epiphanius in the Panarion among 80 heresies and by John Damascene in the book On a Hundred Heresies in Brief; both authors have 58 heresies. The Valicias are described by Augustine in De Haeresibus ad Quodvultdeum Liber Unus and by the nameless author of Predestinate; both authors have 37 heresies. Philastria Valisia is not mentioned in his book Liber de Haeresibus.

References

Epiphanius of Cyprus. Panarion. Valisia. Thirty-eighth, α in the general order of the fifty-eighth heresy.
Bulgakov S.V. Handbook of heresies, sects and schisms. Valesians.
John of Damascus. A hundred heresies in brief. 58. valicia
John Henry Blunt. Dictionary of Sects, Heresies, Ecclesiastical Parties, and Schools of Religious Thought. Rivingtons p. 433, p. 614
Aurelius Augustine ("Heresy, by the permission of God, in one book") Augustinus. "De Haeresibus ad Quodvultdeum Liber Unus."
"De Haeresibus ad Quodvultdeum Liber Unus" - "Livre sur les hérésies À Quodvultdeus"
Augustinus. "De Haeresibus ad Quodvultdeum Liber Unus."
PL. 53. col. 599. XXXLII.

Christianity in the fourth century
heresy
Christian sects