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Church History — Eusebius Pamphilius. When Severus began to persecute the churches, [1765] glorious testimonies were given everywhere by the athletes of religion. This was especially the case in Alexandria, to which city, as to a most prominent theater, athletes of God were brought from Egypt and all Thebais according to their merit, and won ...
During the reign of Severus the fifth persecution of the Christians broke out. He forbade conversion to Judaism and to Christianity. The persecution raged especially in Syria and Africa. In 203 Saints Perpetua and Felicitas and their companions suffered martyrdom at Carthage.
Read online. The name of Emperor Septimius Severus is associated with the tradition of local anti-Christian persecution (202–203), when an edict prohibiting Christian and Jewish proselytism appeared. After that many believers suffered: Perpetua, Felicitas and their comrades in Carthage, Origen’s father, the rhetoric Leonidas, Potamina and ...
- Alekaey Vital’evich Kargaltsev
- 2018
Writing during his reign, Clement of alexandria said, “Many martyrs are daily burned, confined, or beheaded, before our eyes.”. In 202 Septimius enacted a law prohibiting the spread of Christianity and Judaism. This was the first universal decree forbidding conversion to Christianity.
About 200 A.D., under the reign of Roman emperor Septimius Severus, persecution broke out against the Christians. It was particularly severe in North Africa. In Carthage, a Christian woman of...
THE EMPEROR SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS: A PRECURSOR OF DECIUS Severus, constantissimus Principum :1 Whatever Tertullian precisely intended by this seeming praise of the Emperor, it has normally been taken to indicate that Severus' attitude towards the Christians was a friendly, or at least not a hostile one.
Quick Reference. Emperor ad 193–211. The Septimii were of Punic origin, his mother's family of Italian descent. His equestrian grandfather was the leading figure at Lepcis Magna under Trajan; his father held no office, but two Septimii were already senators when Severus was born (145). One of them secured senatorial rank for him from Marcus ...
