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- ↑ Brinley Roderick Rees, Pelagius: Life and Letters , Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 1998, p. 18. ISBN 9780851157146 "Evans goes on to suggest that the 'Sicilian Briton' met and conversed with Pelagius - 'they were both, after all, Britons residing for the present in Sicily' (!)"
- ↑ to Hilary of Syracuse, directed against the teaching of the anonymous Sicilian Pelagian called by Jobn Morris the Sicilian Briton, Page 42, Augustine Through the Ages: An Encyclopedia, Author:ed FITZGERALD, Editors: Allan Fitzgerald, John Cavadini, John C. Cavadini, Marianne Djuth, Frederick Van Fleteren, James Joseph O'Donnell, Jaroslav Jan Pelikan, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1999, ISBN 9780802838438
- ↑ John Morris (1973), The Age of Arthur: A History of the British Isles from 350 to 650. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1973
- ↑ Brown, Peter (2013-09-02). Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-4453-1.