Titus 79 Domitian 96 Anacletus 98 Clement Evaristus. Phædrus. Verrius The four passovers Flaccus. Diotrephes, celebrated by Christ. Strabo. Dionysiusof These are be consider- John the Baptist Alexand. almost all ed as apos-beheaded. Christ's Seneca, the the genuine tates than as miracles, sufferings, Rhetor. ecclesiasti- heretics. death, resurrection, Seneca, the Alexander. cal writers of The Nico- and ascension. the first cen- laitans. The dates tury that are Ebion. philosopher and The descent of the! poet. Velleius Pa terculus. Cremutius of the deaths now extant. The Naza-Holy Ghost. renes. St. Stephen, the first Martyr. N.B. The The conversion of Isidore of Ebionites & St. Paul. Charax. Nazarenes, Institution of Aga-Celsus, the Edessa-the though ge-pæ, or feasts of chari- Physician. gospels, Acts,nerally pla- ty. in the ac counts of Abgarus, king of chronolo gers. Epistles, and ced by the Baptism is adminis- Pfaff, Bower, those which long more The first persecu- which men be the chief Sedition & slaugh Maximus. Tyrius. attach either of the En-ter of that people un-Taurus Cal no ideas, or cratites. false ones, Hydroparahas wounded states, and charity and Apoctactpeace, with-ites. out promo Ptolomæus ting truth & Secundus. knowledge. It has produ- Cerdo. ced heresies Marcion. of the worst Florinus. kind. Melito. Tartian.* Papias. Apollinaris. Hermias. der the standards of visius. Barcocheba, the false Apuleius. Messiah. Artemido rus. The Jews are dri- Lucian. ven from Jerusalem. Numenes. Pausanias. Horrible calumnies Polianus. thrown out against the Christians by Lu- Sextus Emcian, Crescens, Celsus, piricus. and the Pagans in ge- Athenæus. Docetæ, or neral. Phantasi asts. Julius Pol The perusal of the lux. The Meli- Sibylline Oracles pro- Diogenes tonians. hibited by an impe- Laertius. Athenago- The Sac- rial edict. Christian Gallienus. ras. Clemens Alexandri-Ophites. Saccas. Artotyrites. houses, and in the bu- Priscus. Theodotus, rying places of Mar-Cephalion. nus. Tertullian. Aquila. the Tanner, tyrs. Aristides. Theodotion. the chief of Infant baptism and Hermoge sponsors used in this century. nes, who, at the age Heliogaba- Cornelius 251 Ammonius. Sabellius. Beryllus. 218 lus 222 Severus A contest be Alexander Maximin 237 canus. rus. Sixth persecution Ælius Mauunder Severus, in which Leonidas, Ire- Oppian, the næus, Victor, Bishop Poet. of Rome, Perpetua, Quintus SeFelicitas, and others, suffer martyrdom. ren. Sammoni cus. Seventh persecu- Julius Afri tion under Maximin canus. 254 Julius Afri- Paul of Sa- VIII. under Decias, in Acolus. tween him Origen. 235 and Nova- Cyprian. tian. Novatian. Novatians. dom. Gordian I,II. Lucius 256 Gregory 237 Stephen 258 Pupienus Censorinus. C. Curius Sixtus II.259 Dionysius of Valesians. Balbin 238 Dionysius Gordian III. 244 Felix 275 Anatolius. Philip, the Arabian, supposed to have been Eighth persecution Fortunaunder Valerian, in 270 Pamphilus. A schism be- which those more il- Herodian. tween Ste-lustrious martyrs, Nicagoras. phen and Cyprian, Lucius, Ste- Quadratus. phen 1. Sixtus I. and Amelius. Laurentius, suffer for Gentilianus. their faith. 283 Africanus. Caius Mar- Commodia 296 Archelaus. Lucianus. tus.. Stephen R. 276 lis. Victorinus. |