Paganism and Druidism would have been an impossibility.

Christianity, even with its lustre dimmed, its purity tarnished, its simplicity overlaid with scholasticism, was better than these.

The miracle had been accomplished.

The great Roman Empire had said, "I am Christian." A belief in the gods of Parnassus, which Rome had imposed upon Gaul, had now become a heresy to be exterminated.

If fires were lighted at Lyons or elsewhere, they were for the extermination not of Christians, but of pagans, and of all who would depart from the religion of Christ as interpreted by Rome.