The gravamen of the heresy seems to have been the suggestion that there were men not of the progeny of Adam.

Virgilius was made Bishop of Salzburg in 768.

He bore until his death, 789, the curious title, "Geometer and Solitary," or "lone wayfarer" (Solivagus).

A suspicion of heresy clung to his memory until 1233, when he was raised by Gregory IX, to sainthood beside his accuser, St.Boniface .-- Editor.

(Conway)] If the belief of errors not morally bad did no mischief, it would make no part of the moral duty of man to oppose and remove them.