other · 190 · Lyon
Victor of Rome had decided that the churches of Asia, which kept Pascha on the fourteenth of Nisan whatever day it fell on, were out of communion, and had written round to say so. Irenaeus kept the Sunday himself and wrote to him anyway. His argument was not that the Asians were right but that the disagreement was old and had never broken anything: the difference in the fast confirms the agreement in the faith, and the presbyters before Victor had kept the peace with the churches that observed the fourteenth. He then reminds him of the case in his own memory — Polycarp had come to Rome and neither he nor Anicetus would give way, and Anicetus had yielded the eucharist in his own church, and they had parted in peace. Eusebius' comment is his own and not a line from the letter: thus Irenaeus, who truly was well named, became a peacemaker in this matter. The churches of Asia were not cut off.
To stop the bishop of Rome cutting off the churches of Asia over the date of Easter.
He stopped him. Eusebius says he was well named, and meant it as a joke about peace.