XXXIII. Диоклетиан (царств. 20 лет)

Diocletian the Dalmatian, the son of a scribe, immediately, upon being elected emperor, executed Aper in front of the army, swearing that Numerian was killed without his participation. Diocletian took part in the reign of Herculius Maximian, who, having dispersed the crowds of villagers who gave their gang the name Baccaudians, restored calm in Gaul. Carausius, accepting purple, occupied Britain. Narzey went to war in the East. The Pentapolitans devastated Africa. Achilleus captured Egypt, as a result of which Constantius and Galerius Maximian Caesars were accepted into complicity in the reign, of whom Constantius was the grandson of Claudius by daughter, and Galerius was from Dacia, not far from Sardica. And in order to unite them with himself by kinship, Diocletian gave Herculius's stepdaughter Theodora to Constantius, from whom he later had six sons, Constantine's brothers, and his daughter Valeria to Galerius, both of whom were forced to leave their former wives. Busiris and Koptos 25, who rebelled against the Romans, were destroyed to the ground. Carp and Basterna are settled on Roman soil. Diocletian the first 26 ordered to worship himself as God and sew precious stones on clothes and shoes, whereas before emperors were greeted in the same way as judges and in clothing from private individuals they were distinguished only by a purple chlamys. Alexandria, which fell from the power of the Romans along with all of Egypt on the initiative of Achilleus, was taken by Diocletian in the eighth month of the siege. As a result, throughout Egypt, many were punished with heavy fines and exile, and the instigators of the indignation were executed by death. The bishopric of the Roman Church was accepted by the XXVIII Bishop Marcellinus, who ruled for 6 years. The XXVII Bishop of the Jerusalem Church of Zabda is ordained. Ten years later, Britain was returned by the praetorian prefect Asclepiodotus. At Lingona 27, Caesar Constantine defeated 60,000 Allemans. Galerius Maximian, defeated by Narzeus, fled in purple before the chariot of Diocletian Veturius the master of militia persecutes Christian soldiers and, from that time on, little by little persecution begins against us. Galerius Maximian, having defeated Narzeus and captured his wives, children and sisters, is received by Diocletian with great honor. Diocletian's Baths were built in Rome, and Maximian's Baths in Carthage. The Jerusalem church was ruled by Bishop Hermon in ΧΧVIII. The XIX Bishop Tyrannus is installed in Antioch. In the Alexandrian church, after Theona, XXI Bishop Peter was ordained, who later gloriously achieved martyrdom in the ninth year of the persecution. Diocletian and Maximian the Augustus had a ceremonial entry into Rome with great pomp, and in front of their chariot were Narzeus's wife, sisters and children, and were carrying various booty captured from the Parthians. A terrible earthquake in Tire and Sidon destroyed many buildings and crushed countless people. In the nineteenth year of the reign of Diocletian, in the month of March, on the days of Easter, churches were destroyed. Persecution of Christians. According to the Antiochian calendar, 351 years. In the second year of the persecution, Diocletian in Nicomedia, and Maximian in Milan, composed the purple. 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. Probably omitted: “after Caligula and Domitian,” since they were the first to introduce divine worship of themselves. What is now Langres in France. You might be interested in: