ABSTRACT
Modern historians have mentioned the allusion included in Sulpicius Severus' Chronicle, according to which the British travelled to Rimini thanks to imperial transport because of the genuine poverty their original sees were plunged into. According to Sulpicius Severus' Chronicle, the division affected the relationship between Nicenes and Arians in the churches and it was a source of major problems within the ranks of the Catholics as well. The proceedings of the Council of Rimini, as they have been transmitted, include an epistle for the emperor Constantius, written by the Nicene bishops convened at the occasion. The evolution of Hilary's attitude coincides in time with the issuance, by Liberius of Rome, of the Decreta Generalia, which were sent to all the western provinces after the synod of Rimini. Gildas and Bede are the only insular writers to make an explicit reference to the impact of Arianism in the Roman provinces of Britannia.
