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The condemnation was not solely verbal. In 318, Arius and his fol-
lowers were excommunicated. Arius, his two closest assistants (Bishop
Theonas and Secundus), and 12 priests were exiled to Palestine. Before
going into exile in Palestine, Arius collected his ideas in a lyrical book
called Thalia.
However, here too Arius found sympathizers. And so his move-
ment, which strongly opposed many of the ideas of the Roman Church,

continued to spread. When reports of this reached Constantine, who had
taken the Church of Rome under his protection in order to build religious
unity, he realized that he was dealing with a major problem: internal di-
vision of the Church. He therefore decided to re-establish unity without
further loss of time. This was why he convened the Council of Nicaea,
one of Christianity's major turning points.