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1 day ago · Like Decius before him, he continued the killing of Christians, including such great saints as Lawrence the Deacon, Denis of Paris, Cyprian and Pope Sixtus II. However, he was continuously at war with the Persians, who wound up capturing the emperor who died in their captivity — which sent shockwaves throughout the empire, and was a harbinger ...
3 days ago · List of Roman emperors. The Prima Porta statue of Augustus ( r. 27 BC – AD 14), the first Roman emperor. The Roman emperors were the rulers of the Roman Empire from the granting of the name and title Augustus to Octavian by the Roman Senate in 27 BC onward. [1] Augustus maintained a facade of Republican rule, rejecting monarchical titles but ...
2 days ago · The new emperor Decius could see that the empire was in trouble. In an unprecedented move, he ordered every inhabitant in the empire to perform a sacrifice to the gods for the safety of Rome. The rituals were supervised by officials, who would produce certificates verifying that each sacrifice had taken place.
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21 hours ago · The first year of the Emperor Caesar Gaius Messias Quintus Traianus Decius Pius Felix Augustus, Pauni 27.: 145–151 When the provincial governor Pliny had written to the emperor Trajan in 112, he said he required suspected Christians to curse Christ, but there is no mention of Christ or Christians in the certificates from Decius' reign.
5 days ago · Perturbed, Valerian took up where the vicious Emperor Decius had left off in 251. “Rid the Empire of them!” he thundered. “If they don’t give up their superstition, send them to the arena as a spectacle and a warning for knights, patricians, and senators who have dared embrace the inhuman Christian abomination.”
5 days ago · Origen of Alexandria [a] ( c. 185 – c. 253), [4] also known as Origen Adamantius, [b] was an early Christian scholar, [7] ascetic, [8] and theologian who was born and spent the first half of his career in Alexandria. He was a prolific writer who wrote roughly 2,000 treatises in multiple branches of theology, including textual criticism ...
5 days ago · According to the Roman martyrology, he died in Lycia under the Roman emperor Decius (c. 250). He is the hero of many later legends, which represent him as a giant who, after being converted, devoted his life to carrying travelers across a river. One day a small child asked to be transported, and in the middle of the river the child became so ...
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