IV. Кай Калигула (царств. 3 года и 10 месяцев)

Caius Caesar, nicknamed Caligula, freed Agrippa from his bonds and made him king of the Jews. Kai includes himself among the gods. Flaccus Avilius, prefect of Egypt, oppresses the Jews with many disasters, with the sympathy of the Alexandrian people, who often shouted against them, and desecrates their synagogues with images, statues, altars and sacrifices. Philo, in the book entitled Flaccus, says that all this happened in his presence, as a result of which he undertook an embassy to Caius. Passienus, son of 4, is killed for deception in the case of his inheritance. Matthew is the first to write the Gospel in Judea. Kai, nicknamed Caligula, took the wife of the Memmian king, forcing him to write that he was the father of his wife. Pontius Pilate, having fallen into many misfortunes, killed himself with his own hand, as Roman historians write. Caius ordered Petronius, the prefect of Syria, to erect a statue of him in Jerusalem under the name of the all-good Jupiter, the greatest, which the Jews rejected with the greatest stubbornness. Throughout the Roman Empire, as Philo and Josephus write, in Jewish synagogues statues, images and altars were dedicated in honor of Kai Caesar. Many of the nobles were killed by Kai. Kai, accusing his sisters of a dissolute life, condemned them to exile to the islands. Kai ordered to kill all those exiled. Kai is killed by his protectors in the palace, in the 29th year of his life. 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. In contrast to Father Passienus, an orator who became famous around the time of the Nativity of Christ. You might be interested in: