XI. Траян (царств. 19 лет и 6 месяцев)

By decree of the Senate, Nerva was included in the number of gods. The Apostle John lived until the time of Trajan, as Bishop Irenaeus writes; after Irenaeus, his famous listeners were: Papias Bishop of Hierapolis, Polycarp of Smyrna and Ignatius of Antioch. The bishopric of the Roman Church was taken over by IV Bishop Evaristus, who ruled for 9 years. Trajan wins victories over the Dacians and Scythians. Trajan, having defeated King Decebalus, made Dacia a province; accepted under the patronage of the Iberians, Osros, Arabs, inhabitants of the Bosphorus and Colchis; occupied Seleucia, Ctesiphon, Babylon and kept them behind him; established a fleet in the Red Sea to devastate the borders of India. The golden house burned down in Rome. Four cities in Asia were destroyed by an earthquake: Elea, Myrrhina, Pitana. Kimes and two in Greece: Opuntia and Orit. During the persecution of Christians initiated by Trajan, Simon the son of Cleopas, who was a bishop in Jerusalem, is crucified on the cross. Justus succeeds him. The fourth bishop of the Alexandrian Church, named Primus, was installed as a bishop for 12 years. And Ignatius, bishop of the Antiochian church, brought to Rome, is given over to the beasts, after which Heron is appointed the third bishop. Pliny the Second, when he ruled one province and during his reign put to death very many of the Christians, then, amazed at their multitude, asked Trajan what he should do, informing him that, apart from stubborn resistance to make sacrifices and meetings that happen before dawn to glorify a certain Christ as God, they have nothing; that in addition, to strengthen discipline, they avoid murder, theft, adultery, robbery and the like. Trajan, in response to this, wrote that these people should not be searched for, but those brought to trial should be punished. This is what Tertullian writes in Apologetics. The fifth bishop of the Roman Church, Alexander, ruled for 10 years. The famous orator and historian Pliny the Second of Novokomsky, from whose mind there are many works. In Rome, the Pantheon burned down from lightning. After Just IV, the bishop of the Jerusalem church was Zacchaeus, after whom V Tobias, who was succeeded by VI Benjamin, and then VII John, ΥΙI Matthew, in whose place IX Philip was appointed. Trajan made provinces of Armenia, Assyria, and Mesopotamia. The earthquake destroyed almost the entire city of Antioch. The Jews who lived in Libya are at enmity against their foreign cohabitants. In a similar way, great unrest is being raised in Egypt, in Alexandria, in Cyrene and Thebaid; but the pagan party in Alexandria prevails. When the Mesopotamian Jews rebelled, Emperor Trajan ordered Lysias Quietus to expel them from this province; Quietus, having led an army against them, destroyed countless thousands of them, and for this, the emperor appointed him procurator of Judea. The Jews destroyed the Cypriot city of Salamis, killing the pagans in it. Trajan died of illness in Selinunte, or, as others write, died of diarrhea in the Isaurian city of Seleucia, being 63 years, 9 months and 4 days old. His remains were placed in a golden urn and placed in the square under the column; He alone of all is buried inside the city (Rome). We translate the chronicle of Eusebius according to Jerome’s account, starting only from the Nativity of Christ, bearing in mind theological and church-historical interest, which the previous part of the chronicle does not represent. On the same basis, we consider it possible to omit in the translation the chronological indication of the years from Abraham, according to the Olympiads and according to the years of the reign of the kings of Judah (before the destruction of Jerusalem) and limit ourselves to Christian chronology. Asterisks indicate testimony of dubious authenticity that is found in all lists of the chronicle according to the presentation of the bl. Jerome. Note Editorials. You might be interested in: