Marinus took refuge at Monte Titano on the Italian peninsula, where he built a chapel and founded a monastic community in 301 A. D ..

Stephen was created cardinal-priest of Santi Quattro Coronati by Marinus I, and his obvious holiness was the cause of his being chosen pope.

Stephen died during October 942, and was succeeded by Marinus II.

He was ordained as a subdeacon by Pope Marinus I, followed by his being raised to the deaconate by Pope Stephen V. During the pontificate of Pope Formosus ( 891 – 896 ), he was a member of the party of nobles who supported the Emperor Lambert, who was the opponent of Formosus and the pope ’ s preferred imperial candidate, Arnulf of Carinthia.

Proclus was born February 8, 412 AD ( his birth date is deduced from a horoscope cast by a disciple, Marinus ) in Constantinople to a family of high social status in Lycia ( his father Patricius was a high legal official, very important in the Byzantine Empire's court system ) and raised in Xanthus.

Eventually, this gifted student became dissatisfied with the level of philosophical instruction available in Alexandria, and went to Athens, the preeminent philosophical center of the day, in 431 to study at the Neoplatonic successor of the famous Academy founded 800 years ( in 387 BC ) before by Plato ; there he was taught by Plutarch of Athens ( not to be confused with Plutarch of Chaeronea ), Syrianus, and Asclepigenia ; he succeeded Syrianus as head of the Academy, and would in turn be succeeded on his death by Marinus of Neapolis.

* The life of Proclus, or On Happiness: written by his pupil, Marinus

His consequent unpopularity in the European provinces was utilized by an ambitious man, named Vitalian, to organize a dangerous rebellion, in which he was assisted by a horde of " Huns " ( 514 – 515 ); it was finally suppressed by a naval victory won by the general Marinus.

According to tradition, San Marino was founded in 301 AD when a Christian stonemason named Marinus the Dalmatian, later venerated as Saint Marinus, emigrated in 257 AD from the Dalmatian island of Rab, then a Roman colony, when the emperor Diocletian issued a decree calling for the reconstruction of the city walls of Rimini which had been destroyed by Liburnian pirates.

* 301 – San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus.

Riots erupted again in September 2006 in Christian dominated areas of Central Sulawesi, as well as other part of Indonesia, after the execution by firing squad of Fabianus Tibo, Dominggus da Silva and Marinus Riwu, three Catholics convicted of leading Christian militants during the violence of the early first decade of the 21st century.

The first, not yet practical, form of gyrocompass was patented in 1885 by Marinus Gerardus van den Bos.

The term Antarctic, referring to the opposite of the Arctic Circle, was coined by Marinus of Tyre in the 2nd century AD.

Hilversum City Hall by Willem Marinus Dudok

* Marinus van der Lubbe by guillotine in 1934 after a show trial in which he was found guilty of starting the Reichstag fire.

The city takes its name from the ancient Republic of San Marino, founded by Saint Marinus who fled his home in Dalmatia ( modern Croatia ) at the time of the Diocletianic Persecution of Christians.

The first recorded use of the Greek word translated trapezoid ( τραπέζοειδη, trapézoeide, " table-like ") was by Marinus Proclus ( 412 to 485 AD ) in his Commentary on the first book of Euclid's Elements.

In the year 883, though there is some debate over the year, King Alfred, because of his support and his donation of alms to Rome, received a number of gifts from the Pope Marinus.

According to Asser, because of Pope Marinus ’ friendship with King Alfred, the pope granted an exemption to any Anglo-Saxons residing within Rome from tax or tribute.

Pope Adrian II ( 867 – 872 ) is the last pope for which there are extant manuscripts of the original Liber Pontificalis: the biographies of Pope John VIII, Pope Marinus I, and Pope Adrian III are missing and the biography of Pope Stephen V ( 885 – 891 ) is incomplete.

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Pope Marinus I ( or Martin II ), was Pope between 16 December 882 and 15 May 884.

Pope Marinus II ( or Martin III ), was Pope from 30 October 942 to May 946.

Following the reigns of Marinus, Pope Hadrian III ( 884 – 885 ) and Pope Stephen V ( 885 – 891 ), Formosus was elected Pope on 6 October 891.

* May 10 – Pope Agapitus II succeeds Pope Marinus II as the 129th pope.

* May 17 – Pope Adrian III ( also referred to as Hadrian III ) succeeds Pope Marinus I as the 109th pope.

* May 15 – Pope Marinus I

* December 16 – Pope Marinus I succeeds Pope John VIII as the 108th pope.

John II ruled Gaeta and his brother, Marinus, ruled Fondi with the equivalent title of duke.

After the end of the American Revolutionary War, Isaac Sears along with Marinus Willet and John Lamb, in New York City, revived the Sons of Liberty.

Other notable people from these areas in this period included the Christian Jerome, Saint Marinus ( builder of San Marino ), emperors Valentinian I and Valens, and Pope John IV.

Johannes Franciscus Alphonsus Marinus ( John ) Opdam was a Dutch murderer.

Concerning the events of that day, Henry Shaver, one of forty white men chosen at Fort Plank by Lieutenant Colonel Marinus Willett to accompany a band of Oneida Indians under the command of Colonel Lewis Cook in pursuit of Major John Ross forces after the Battle of Johnstown, stated.

John Gorrie ( who had previously directed The Keys of Marinus ) temporarily stepped in.

This Crescentius was the father of two illustrious people: his successor, Marinus, and his son John ( called Gaetanus or Coniulo ) from Pisa, who was Pope Gelasius II.

Several of its later bishops are known: Marinus in 325 ; Niconius in 344 ; Sylvanus at the beginning of the 5th century ; Pionius in 451 ; Leo in 787 ; Peter, friend of the Patriarch Ignatius, and adversary to Michael, in the ninth century.

Diels was best known as the primary interrogator of Marinus van der Lubbe after the Reichstag fire.

* 1934 – Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist accused of setting the Reichstag fire ( b. 1909 )

* 1909 – Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist ( d. 1934 )

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Marinus was born in Rome, and prior to becoming pope he was attached to the Church of Saint Cyriacus in the Baths of Diocletian.

Marinus was elevated to the papacy on 30 October 942 through intervention of Alberic II of Spoleto, Prince of the Romans, and concentrated on administrative aspects of the papacy, and sought to reform both the secular and regular clergy.

Marinus later intervened when the Bishop of Capua seized without authorization a church which had been given to the local Benedictine monks.

In fact, throughout his pontificate, Marinus favoured various monasteries, issuing a number of Papal bulls in their favour.

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However, in 725, possibly at the emperor ’ s request, Marinus, who had been sent from Constantinople to govern the Duchy of Rome, encouraged a conspiracy to murder the pope.

Involving a duke named Basil, the Chartoularios Jordanes, and a subdeacon named Lurion, the departure of Marinus paused the plot, only to see it resume with the arrival of the new exarch, Paul.

The son of a Roman noble called Marinus, Stephen IV belonged to the same family which also produced the Popes Sergius II and Adrian II.