Majorinus

[7][8] However rather than depose Caecilianus, his appointment created a 300-year-long schism in North African Christendom that would radically shape the intellectual life of Christianity.

Optatus claims that a dispute broke out between Lucilla—a woman of high rank and the deacon Caecilianus—who had reprimanded her for touching a relic of a saint.

[10] The offence, he claims, had festered and at the accession to the bishopric of Caecilianus, Lucilla joined with the Council of Bishops[11] who Optatus called antichrists and betrayers.

[12] he concluded ....the Schism was brought to birth by the anger of a disgraced woman, was fed by ambition, and received its strength from avarice[13] He describes Majorinus: "Majorinus, a member of the household of Lucilla----at her instigation, and through her bribes----was consecrated Bishop by Betrayers, who in the Numidian Council had (as we have already said) acknowledged their crimes and granted pardon to one another.

He wrote of the Donatists in an epistle: "It is better indeed that men should be brought to serve God by instruction than by fear of punishment or by pain.