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Gregory the Great, Ephraim Syrus & Aphrahat • SECTION 166

22. Hear, my beloved, these names of martyrs, of confessors, and of the persecuted. Abel was murdered, and his blood cried out from the eart

… Also (others) of the apostles thereafter in divers places confessed and proved true martyrs. And also concerning our brethren who are in the West, in the days of Diocletian there came great affliction and persecution …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 233

[2461] dodekatemorion: "twelfth-part."

… He was the immediate predecessor of Eusebius in the church of Cæsarea, and probably survived the persecution, but not for many years (see above, p. 10 sq.). Eusebius speaks of him in the past tense …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 414

Chapter XVIII.

… 223; school of, [153]225; martyrs of, under Decius, [154]283; sedition in, [155]205; pestilence in, [156]306, [157]307; mutilation of Christians in, during the Diocletian persecution, [158]332; table of bishops of …

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 424

Letter of C. to the churches, [3892]524.

… to, 414; appointment as Cæsar, [3989]414; assumes title of Augustus, [3990]414; character, [3991]415; persecution by, [3992]415; war against Licinius, defeat, flight, and death, [3993]417, [3994]578; persecution of, [3995]498 …

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 72

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… In course of the persecutions of Diocletian he was thrown into prison by Urbanus, the governor of Palestine. This took place towards the end of the year 307 a.d., and his confinement lasted till …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 171

I entreat your piety to pray that I may not have my part among the wrong doers, but among them that suffer wrong on account of the truth of

… ii) one at Tripoli (iii) another at Corinth, (iv and v) and two at Cæsarea, in the persecution of Diocletian. Cosmas and Damianus are the famous semi-mythical physicians, the Silverless Martyrs. Vide p. 295.

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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 21

Jerome on the first chapter of Matthew.

… universally beloved), has composed a History of the Church in ten books, brought down to the time of the Emperor Constantine, when the persecution ceased which Diocletian had commenced against the Christians. But, in writing …

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Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 111

For in the time of this man the fire of Christian persecution so raged, that not only in one region of the universe, but even throughout the

For in the time of this man the fire of Christian persecution so raged, that not only in one region of the universe, but even throughout the whole world, both by land and by sea …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 168

Very often it is not entire bodies that are buried, but only very small remains, yet nevertheless we speak of the body by the name that belo

… A Romanus was one of the seven martyrs at Samosata in the persecution of Diocletian. Among martyred Timothei was one who suffered at Gaza in 304. [1949] John vi. 51 [1950] Luke xxii. 19 [1951 …

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Gregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 3

Chapter I.--A Sketch of the Life of S. Gregory of Nyssa.

… During the Diocletian persecution his grandparents had fled for safety to the mountainous region of Pontus, where they endured great hardships and privations. It is said that his maternal grandfather, whose name is unknown, eventually …

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Augustine — Against the Manichaeans and Donatists • SECTION 290

Council:

… as martyrs, [1962]533, [1963]534, [1964]543, [1965]560, [1966]567, [1967]575, [1968]576, [1969]577, [1970]637, [1971]638, [1972]645. affect prophecy, [1973]536. deny Catholic ordination, [1974]538. are limited …

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