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  • Jesus. According to some sources, his full name was Yeshua bar Abba, (Jesus ... to have Barabbas or Jesus released from Roman custody. According to the ...
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  • having reorganized and re-invigorated the Roman church after a period of ... Marcellus' relics are under the altar of the Roman Church of ...
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  • and finally a prominent city of the Roman Empire. The ancient city ... a Punic city, and eventually one of the Roman Empire's most important ...
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  • Anicetus was involved in upholding the Roman tradition of celebrating ... suffered martyrdom during the reign of the Roman Co-Emperor Lucius Verus. ...
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  • dates from a period of peace with the Roman state, this report is generally ... prominent and wealthy members of the Roman church, established a Christian ...
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  • –– November 18, 942), a saint of the Roman Catholic Church, was the ... His Roman Catholic feast day and mass is celebrated on November 18th ...
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  • and celebratory rites dedicated to the Roman god Bacchus (a variant of ... Bacchus was the Roman characterization of the Greek Dionysus, a deity ...
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  • and what would become known as the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern ... Emperor, Justin I, on the ultimatum of the Roman patriarch, demanded that ...
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  • in present Spain or Portugal in the Western Roman Empire, he was raised in ... the acceptability of Christianity among the Roman elites. He also restored ...
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  • Minerva was the ancient Roman goddess of wisdom and war. Her areas ... she was not worshiped as early as other Roman deities such as Jupiter and Juno. ...
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  • Neptune (Latin: Neptūnus) was the god of the sea in Roman mythology ... The worship of Neptune, as the Roman version of Poseidon, is another ...
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  • a fact that led to the First Punic War with Roman forces. Geographic over-expansion ... The Roman occupation of Northern Africa led to tension and military ...
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  • the nineteenth century. His work regarding Roman history is still of fundamental ... diploma in 1837, graduating as a doctor of Roman law. As he could not afford ...
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  • Bohemia, and, through her marriage, Holy Roman Empress. nation, and she began styling herself Holy Roman Empress in 1745. ...
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  • who became known in his capacity as a Roman citizen as Flavius Josephus, ... While some accuse him of being a pro-Roman propagandist, even a traitor ...
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  • for crowning Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor and for promoting ... relationship, as Rome's protector. The Roman aristocrats would have resented ...
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  • Rome from May 12, 254 to August 2, 257. Of Roman birth but of Greek ancestry ... clergy. Cyprian and other bishops of the Roman provinces of Africa and Asia ...
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  • by a number of German rulers to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the ... enumerates several alleged abuses in the Roman Catholic Church at the time ...
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  • 189 to 199 C.E.). Having been born in the Roman Province of Africa, he was ... was also actively involved in ridding the Roman church of Gnosticism and ...
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  • Limbo is a Roman Catholic theological term, referring to the concept ... The Roman Catholic concept of limbo developed as a result of two dogmatic ...
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  • In the Roman Catholic Church, a Doctor of the Church (Latin doctor ... The Roman Catholic Church recognizes that the Doctors of the Church ...
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  • valued for its appearance. Later, the name was generalized to igneous ... an isolated site in Egypt in 18 C.E. by a Roman legionnaire named Caius Cominius ...
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  • Among Roman Catholics, Ash Wednesday is observed by fasting, abstinence ... In the Roman Catholic Church, unlike its discipline regarding sacraments ...
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  • metzuda, "fortress") is the name for a site of ancient palaces ... According to Flavius Josephus, a first century Jewish Roman historian ...
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  • of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic; it became very ... * The History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic (1783) ...
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  • In later Roman times, Cronus was identified with the Roman deity Saturn. ... is an entirely different divine being. The name, however, may be related to ...
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  • #039; pontificate was legitimatized by the Roman clergy. Vigilius then betrayed ... Vigilius belonged to a distinguished Roman family; his father Johannes ...
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  • Venus was a major Roman goddess principally associated with love, ... a divine ancestor of the entire race of Roman people. In addition, the ...
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  • 244), known in English as Gordian III, was Roman Emperor from 238 to 244. ... Europe that emerged from the ruins of the Roman empire cherished common values ...
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  • of the skull") is the English-language name given to the hill on which ... Luke's Gospel does not give the local, Aramaic name, Golgotha ...
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  • with conclusions more compatible with Roman Catholic orthodoxy, similar ... with the right to call himself by the name Medici. Nifo’s commentaries ...
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  • of the major slave uprising against the Roman Republic known as the Third ... uprising, with Spartacus defeating local Roman armies in three sharp engagements ...
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  • the creed include the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church, Lutheranism ... of the apostles' teachings. Its name comes from its twelve articles ...
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  • in an area which was still heavily Roman Catholic. Later he moved ... Hassler's sacred music is both for the Roman Catholic church ...
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  • letters which forms an abbreviation for the name of Jesus Christ, and is traditionally ... alleged crime of treason/sedition to the Roman Empire. However, when Pilate ...
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  • Cathedral" (in German: Kaiserdom) is a Roman Catholic church in Aachen ... Charlemagne (Karl der Grosse in German), the first Holy Roman Emperor ...
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  • to the Liber Pontificalis, he was a Roman citizen, the son of a certain ... Marcellinus’ pontificate began at a time when Diocletian was Roman ...
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  • leader who led a major revolt against the Roman Empire in 132 C.E., establishing ... fuel to the revolutionary fire, as did the Roman policy of insisting that ...
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  • He was the son of Theodore, a Roman nobleman. He reigned for longer ... This appointed the Popes to be successors to the Roman Emperor in ...
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  • Henry VIII of England's break with Roman Catholicism in 1534 and the ... of the Catholic hierarchy in 1553, the Roman rite was restored and compositional ...
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  • Pope Leo I, or Leo the Great, was pope of the Roman Catholic Church ... sufficiently important position within the Roman curia (probably as an archdeacon ...
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  • Aristobulus IV and Berenice. His original name was Marcus Julius Agrippa ... of the Jews, as the area came under direct Roman rule through a procurator ...
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  • of law in the world, with its origins in Roman law, and sets out a comprehensive ... system in that Scots law has a basis in Roman law, combining features of ...
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  • (September 18, 53 – August 9, 117) was Roman Emperor who reigned from ... Trajan maintained good relations with the Roman Senate, and is known for ...
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  • and statesman, founder of the earliest Roman Catholic missions in India ... As a member of a Roman Catholic religious order which at that time ...
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  • his death in 180 C.E. He was notable among Roman emperors as devoted to the ... a temperate and just ruler who defended the Roman Empire against numerous threats ...
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  • to the excommunication of Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor elect, by Pope John ... Pope John XXII and Louis of Bavaria, the Roman emperor elect (elected 1314 ...
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  • having been born before his father became a Roman deacon. Two accounts of his ... his fellow pope, he became a saint in the Roman Catholic faith, and his feast ...
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  • In the Roman Empire, the Vestal Virgins (sacerdos Vestalis), were ... the health and prosperity of Rome and the Roman Empire. The Vestal Virgins ...
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  • Celtic Iceni people of Norfolk in Eastern Roman Britain. Upon the death of ... In 60 or 61 C.E., while Roman governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus was ...
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  • Mannix was devoted to the Roman Catholic teaching of the sanctity ... the great centers of Irish emigration. The Roman Catholic Church's population ...
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  • Titus Lucretius Carus (c. 99 B.C.E. - 55 B.C.E.) was a Roman poet ... De Rerum Natura was an important influence on Virgil and later Roman ...
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  • Pompeii is a ruined city of Roman Empire near modern Naples in the ... layers by well developed soil layers or Roman pavement and were laid down ...
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  • becomes the first Christian nation. The Roman Empire did not adopt Christianity ... I was exiled from Parthia due to his pro-Roman policies and Occidental manners. ...
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  • ===Classical Greco-Roman Henotheism=== of classical Greece and Rome. Greco-Roman religion began as polytheism ...
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  • Devotion towards the Sacred Heart is predominantly found in the Roman ... The Feast of the Sacred Heart is a holy day in the Roman Catholic ...
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  • Agrippa II (b. 27/28 C.E.), was a Roman client king who sided with ... responsibilities, including the right to name the important post of high ...
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  • region. It gave eastern Libya the classical name 'Cyrenaica' that ... Ophelas, the general who occupied the city in Ptolemy I's name ...
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  • The Deuterocanonical books of the Bible are books considered by the ... contributes to the confusion between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox deuterocanon ...
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  • rival claimants to the throne in God's name. The ancient Roman Catholic ... removed the counterbalancing power of the Roman church and returned the royal ...
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  • half of Europe. They were Holy Roman Emperors and one of the most ... ===From counts to Roman Emperors=== [[Image:Armoiries Habsbourg.png ...
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  • he became the tutor of the future Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, who later ... The city was at that time part of the Holy Roman Empire, which was largely ...
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  • 24 and May 15, 1648 and involved the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III, the ... deal with the internal affairs of the Holy Roman Empire.Andreas Osiander, ...
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  • known as Angora. The Hittites gave it the name Ankuwash; the Galatians and ... with various Hittite, Phrygian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman archaeological ...
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  • his reign, most of Armenia was lost to the Roman Empire and Emperor Marcus ... was strong enough to continue to resist Roman hegemony. Persia was the ...
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  • head held the rank of prince of the Holy Roman Empire and many other titles ... the Counts of Celje as princes of the Holy Roman Empire had also operated ...
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  • (1322), a treatise on music, which gave its name to the music of the entire ... Five of Vitry's three-part motets have survived in the 'Roman ...
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  • Collingwood was also a serious archaeologist and an authority on Roman ... spent his summers directing excavations of Roman sites in the north of England ...
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  • and eventually rose to the position of Holy Roman Emperor and Empress. She ... Although she is not recognized in the Roman Calendar, her feast day of ...
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  • An Indulgence, in Roman Catholic theology, is the full or partial ... In Roman Catholic theology, indulgences are granted for personal sins—specific ...
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  • English as Valerian or Valerian I, was the Roman Emperor from 253 to 260. ... and had restored the province of Syria to Roman control but in the following ...
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  • he effectively promoted the primacy of the Roman church and cooperated with ... The Liber Pontificalis gives Innocent's father's name as ...
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  • Alexandria was a thriving Greco-Roman city situated on Egypt's ... an actual lighthouse—and was known by the name of the island on which it ...
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  • Gentile and Jewish-Christians in the Roman church, and he addressed ... he reveals that he wishes to impart to the Roman readers a gift of encouragement ...
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  • and more than 3,000 species. The earlier name Umbelliferae derives from ... rather limited," and that Greek and Roman literary sources are a major ...
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  • as 260 C.E. they invaded what was then the Roman Empire province of Dacia ... of the Goths, where he claims that their name derives from their later and ...
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  • separate from both the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches. ... 1054 C.E., which split the church into the Roman Catholic Church in the West ...
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  • II) in English as Philip the Arabian, was a Roman Emperor from 244 to 249. ... Later Roman literature was unkind to Philip and to Arabs, depicting ...
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  • He was born around 360, possibly in the eastern Roman Empire. Whether ... John Cassian is venerated as a saint in both the Roman Catholic Church ...
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  • and were soon overtaken by the eastern Roman armies of Narses. ... time when the old order represented by the Roman Empire was disappearing and ...
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  • the schism between the two corresponding Roman congregations of these leaders ... According the Liber Pontificalis, Fabian was a Roman by birth, and ...
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  • Caiaphas (Greek Καϊάφας) was the Roman-appointed Jewish high ... probably due to his skill in pleasing his Roman overlords while maintaining ...
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  • Roman trade with India started around the beginning of the Common ... Roman trade diaspora stopped in Southern India, establishing trading ...
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  • Pope Saint Leo IV was pope from April 10, 847 to July 17, 855. A Roman ... distinguished by his crowning of the Holy Roman Emperor Louis II. He also ...
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  • is the first document indicating that the Roman church intervened in the ... Clement I is mentioned in the Roman Canon of the Mass. He is commemorated ...
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  • of his letters that he is Romanus natus (Roman-born) is certainly not inconsistent ... Felix's struggles with Eastern Roman Emperor Anastasius I and ...
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  • the importance of the holy site to the Roman Catholic Church, Pope John ... passed on, leading to the hill taking the name St. Thomas Mount. ...
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  • of speech referring to the territory of the Roman Empire since the earliest ... The "whole" church, however, is constructed by Roman Catholics ...
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  • Alban is one of three martyrs remembered from Roman Britain. ... of Monmouth's later account gives the name of the cleric who converted ...
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  • besides the Virgin Mary, commemorated by name in the Roman Missal. ... Saint Agnes was a member of the Roman nobility born c. 291 and raised ...
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  • sixteenth-century representative of the Roman school of musical composition ... his death. Conservative music of the Roman school continued to be written ...
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  • In pre-Roman times the region was populated by various tribes, including ... as family possessions. The line preceding Roman had held the principality ...
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  • In the Roman Catholic Church, the image of the Church as Christ's ... :For your Maker is your husband—-the LORD Almighty is his name ...
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  • second largest city) became a city of the Roman Republic in 168 B.C.E. It ... companions, and charges were brought to the Roman authorities that he preached ...
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  • " "God Heals" ) is the name of an archangel in Judaism ... Gabriel (Luke 1: 19-26) are mentioned by name in the scriptures that came ...
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  • and as Dacus (plural Daci) and Getae in Roman documents; also as Dagae ... It can be confusing that the geographical name "Dacia" was ...
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  • and Vincent of Lérins. It was used in the Roman Catholic Church, as well ... Liturgically, the Athanasian Creed was recited by the Western (Roman ...
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  • during the periods of the Greek and Roman empires. Major centers of ... ===Pre-Roman diaspora=== In 722 B.C.E., the Assyrians under Shalmaneser ...
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  • to the Pope that is recognized by the Roman Catholic Church. Antipopes ... There have been several antipopes throughout the history of the Roman ...
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  • Theodosius I and Theodosius the Great, was Roman Emperor from 379-395. Reuniting ... the official state religion of the Roman Empire. However, Theodosius ...
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