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Eusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 239
… 2, note 8. [2533] Eusebius is probably again in error, as so often in this book, in connecting a "multitude of martyrs in every province" with this Third Edict. Wholesale persecution and persecution as such …
718 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 238
… It is clear that such an incident as this would anger Diocletian and increase his suspicions of Christians as a class, and thus tend to precipitate a regular persecution. It must have seemed to the …
2,343 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 236
… 23), was chosen by the emperors for the opening of the persecution, and there is no reason for doubting his exact statement. At the beginning of the Martyrs of Palestine (p. 342, below) the month …
2,633 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 3
During these years of quiet, before the great persecution of Diocletian, which broke out in 303 a.d., Eusebius' life must have been a very pleasant one. Pamphilus' house seems to have been a sort …
2,270 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 237
… honored as martyrs, although Eusebius evidently regarded them as such. [2513] We should rather say "for their rash and unjustifiable fanaticism." [2514] In this sentence reference is made to the general persecution, which did not …
1,174 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 250
… authority as lipon. Martyrs of Palestine.^ [2613] ------------------------ The Following also we found in a Certain Copy in the Eighth Book. It was in the nineteenth year of the reign of Diocletian, in the month Xanthicus …
1,864 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 205
… finely written work in praise of martyrs and arguing against the judge who tried to compel him to offer sacrifices, was beheaded for Christ during the same persecution in which Lucianus was put to death …
895 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 252
… with the character of Diocletian; and moreover, it is easier to suppose that the name of Maximinus was later changed into that of Diocletian, by whose name the whole persecution was known, than that the …
989 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 103
… emperors Diocletian and Maximian, a most bitter persecution which, for ten continuous years, wasted the people of God. At this period, almost the whole world was stained with the sacred blood of the martyrs. In …
739 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 240
… Those in Tyre to whom Eusebius refers very likely suffered during the same period; not under Diocletian, but under Maximinus, when the persecution was at its height. Since in his Martyrs of Palestine Eusebius confines …
861 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 416
… Diocletian, becomes emperor, [826]316; persecution of, [827]316; friendliness of, toward Christians, [828]323; first edict of, against Christians, 324, [829]342; second edict of, against Christians, [830]325, [831]342; third edict of …
892 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 251
… The instances given in this chapter are very significant, for they reveal the nature of the persecution during its earlier months, and throw a clear light back upon the motives which had led Diocletian to …
1,405 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 59
… becoming martyrs, he determined to wreak his vengeance upon them in some other way. Abstaining therefore from the excessive cruelties which had been practiced under Diocletian; he did not however altogether abstain from persecution (for …
903 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 419
… martyrs in, [2482]333, [2483]345. Phoenicians, [2484]304. Phrygia, [2485]212, [2486]218, [2487]219, [2488]229, [2489]230, [2490]231, [2491]235; burning of an entire city of, during Diocletian's persecution, [2492 …
2,223 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 423
… as Cæsar, [3643]414; "Fourth Edict" of persecution, [3644]415. Diocletian, persecution by, [3645]485, [3646]486; passes through Palestine, [3647]487; abdication of, [3648]487, [3649]579; insanity and cruelty of, [3650]512; terrified …
2,088 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 254
… Eusebius, as can be seen from the first paragraph of this work on the martyrs, reckoned the beginning of the persecution in Palestine not with the issue of the first edict in Nicomedia on Feb …
1,865 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 11
… 29), and consequently before the publication of either recension of the Martyrs. May it not be that the accounts of the various martyrdoms were written, at least some of them, during the persecution, but that …
2,206 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 245
… At any rate, we learn from the latter chapter that the Faustus mentioned there lived to a great age, and died in the persecution of Diocletian, so that nothing stands in the way of identifying …
2,353 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 418
… Martyrs, in Palestine, under Diocletian, [1854]342-[1855]356; in Alexandria, under Decius, [1856]283; in Cæsarea, under Valerian, [1857]302. Mary, the mother of Christ, [1858]94, [1859]264. Mary, daughter of Eleazar, [1860 …
2,219 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 200
… Chapter XLI.--The Martyrs in Alexandria. 1. The same writer, in an epistle to Fabius, [2080] bishop of Antioch, relates as follows the sufferings of the martyrs in Alexandria under Decius: "The persecution among us …
2,287 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 244
… learn from the Martyrs of Palestine, in the sixth year of the persecution (a.d. 308). The tyrant Maximin seems to have become alarmed at the number of deaths which the persecution was causing, and …
1,371 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 4
… The mutilation of prisoners--such as Potamo suffered--seems to have become common only in the year 308 and thereafter (see Mason's Persecution of Diocletian, p. 281), and hence if Eusebius was imprisoned with …
2,507 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 241
… situated between the Tanite and Mendeaian branches of the Nile), occupies an important place among the Diocletian martyrs. The extant Acts of his martyrdom have been referred to in the previous note. He is mentioned …
1,198 wordsThe Twelve Patriarchs, Apocrypha, Clementine Homilies & More • SECTION 495
… also from the Acts of the former martyrs, who suffered in the days of Domitianus and of all the other emperors who likewise also raised a persecution against the Church, and put a great many …
2,469 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 251
… 303 (under Diocletian and Maximian), and had in their public capacity some share in enforcing the demand made in that persecution for the surrender of the sacred books. These could tell whether Felix the Bishop …
2,027 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 420
… Valeria, daughter of Diocletian, friendliness of, toward Christians, [3047]323 (note 3). Valerian, Roman emperor, at first friendly to Christians, 298; persecution under, [3048]298-[3049]302, [3050]326. Valerius Gratus, procurator of Judea, [3051 …
765 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 213
… In Egypt and the Orient the persecution seems to have continued a few months longer than elsewhere (see chap. 13, note 3). The martyrs were very numerous during the Valerian persecution, especially in Rome and …
1,922 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 258
… After such noble acts of the distinguished martyrs of Christ, the flame of persecution lessened, and was quenched, as it were by their sacred blood, and relief and liberty were granted to those who, for …
1,526 wordsGregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius, Julius Africanus & Others • SECTION 110
… Athanasius says, [2238] respecting this synod, "Peter, who was amongst us as bishop before the persecution, and who died a martyr in the persecution, deposed in common council of the bishops, Meletius, an Egyptian bishop …
2,316 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 138
… It may have been worse than any single persecution that had preceded it, but sinks into insignificance when compared with those which took place under Decius and Diocletian. It is interesting to notice that this …
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