We know from Gildas that he was of high birth, and had Roman ancestry ; he was presumably a Romano-Briton, rather than a Roman from elsewhere in the empire, though it is impossible to be sure.

Luke begins with a global perspective, dating the birth of Jesus to the reign of the Roman emperors in Luke 2: 1 and 3: 1.

Albert was born in Grimma as the third and youngest son ( but fifth child in order of birth ) of Frederick II the Gentle, Elector of Saxony, and Margarete of Austria, sister of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor.

Bob Jones, Sr. argued that if members of Graham ’ s campaign executive committee had rejected major tenets of orthodox Christianity, such as the virgin birth and the deity of Christ, then Graham had violated 2 John 9-11, which prohibits receiving in fellowship those who do “ not abide in the teaching of Christ .” In the 1960s, Graham further irritated fundamentalists by gaining the endorsement of Cardinal Richard Cushing for his Boston campaign and accepting honorary degrees from two Roman Catholic colleges.

The Church became overwhelmingly Gentile sometime in the 4th century, the era of Constantine I and Christianity and the birth of the State church of the Roman Empire.

* Phaedrus ( 15 BCE – 50 CE ), Roman fabulist, by birth a Macedonian.

In 1500 Juana of Castile gave birth to Charles V, who became Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain.

In 9 AD, a Cherusci chieftain named Arminius defeated a Roman army in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, a victory credited with stopping the Roman advance into Germanic territories and forming the birth of German history.

As enlarged in the 6th century, each biography consists of: the birth name of the pope and that of his father, place of birth, profession before elevation, length of pontificate, historical notes of varying thoroughness, major theological pronouncements and decrees, administrative milestones ( including building campaigns, especially of Roman churches ), ordinations, date of death, place of burial, and the duration of the ensuing sede vacante.

Alarm amongst Protestants increased when his wife, Mary of Modena, gave birth to a son — James Francis Edward — in June 1688, for the son would, unlike Mary and Anne, be raised a Roman Catholic.

In Roman Catholic tradition, it marks the site where the Archangel Gabriel announced the future birth of Jesus to the Virgin Mary ( Luke 1: 26-31 ).

He was the first pope to adopt a new name ( regnal name ) upon elevation to the papacy, as his theophoric birth name honoured the Roman god Mercury.

Pope Anastasius III ( died June 913 ) was Pope from April 911 to June 913, was a Roman by birth.

Pope Benedict V ( died 4 July 966 ), of Roman birth, was Pope in 964, elected by the Romans on the death of Pope John XII.

The son of John Cataadioce, he was a Roman by birth although of Greek extraction.

A Roman by birth, Pope Alexander III appointed him in succession Archpriest of the patriarchal Liberian Basilica, Cardinal-deacon of Sergio e Bacco, and finally Cardinal bishop of Palestrina in December 1180.

: At Castrum Fumorense near Alatri in Lazio, the birth of Saint Peter Celestine, who, when leading the life of a hermit in Abruzzo, being famous for his sanctity and miracles, was elected Roman Pontiff as an octogenarian, assumed the name Celestine V, but abandoned his office that same year and preferred to return to solitude.

He was a Roman by birth, and his father's name was Pastor.

Stephen was a Roman by birth, the son of Theodemundus, and perhaps a member of the Gabrielli family.

On the death of Gregory IV, the archdeacon John was proclaimed pope by popular acclamation, while the nobility elected Sergius, a Roman of noble birth.

A Roman by birth, Felix was chosen as Pope on 5 January 269, in succession to Pope Dionysius, who had died on 26 December 268

Apollo ( Attic, Ionic, and Homeric Greek:, Apollōn ( gen .: ); Doric:, Apellōn ; Arcadocypriot:, Apeilōn ; Aeolic:, Aploun ; ) is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in ancient Greek and Roman religion, Greek and Roman mythology, and Greco – Roman Neopaganism.

Marble, Roman copy of a Greek original of the 4th century BCE, from the collection of Cardinal Albani

As a quintessentially Greek god, Apollo had no direct Roman equivalent, although later Roman poets often referred to him as Phoebus.

Apollo is a common theme in Greek and Roman art and also in the art of the Renaissance.

Marble Roman copy after a 5th-century BC Greek original attributed to Polykleitos.

The type is represented by neo-Attic Imperial Roman copies of the late 1st or early 2nd century, modelled upon a supposed Greek bronze original made in the second quarter of the 5th century BCE, in a style similar to works of Polykleitos but more archaic.

The marble is a Hellenistic or Roman copy of a bronze original by the Greek sculptor Leochares, made between 350 and 325 BCE.

Alexander the Great in Greek and Roman Art.

* Smith, William ; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London ( 1873 ).

Later, in the Greek and Roman periods, mouth rinsing following mechanical cleansing became common among the upper classes, and Hippocrates recommended a mixture of salt, alum, and vinegar.

The Dying Gaul c. 230 BC, a Roman copy of a Greek statue commemorating the victory over the Celtic Galatia ns in Anatolia.

The use of minted coins continued to flourish during the Greek and Roman eras.

Since some of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to the goddess Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her equivalent Greek goddess name Aphrodite ( Aphros ), or from the Etruscan name Apru.

* Smith, William ; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London ( 1873 ).

* Roy George, " Athena: The sculptures of the goddess " — A repertory of Greek and Roman types

Classical-Relating to or from ancient Roman or Greek architecture and art.

Bocce ( sometimes anglicized as bocci or boccie ) is a ball sport belonging to the boules sport family, closely related to bowls and pétanque with a common ancestry from ancient games played in the Roman Empire.

Many original freestyle artists, and DJs such as Jellybean, Tony Torres, Raul Soto and Roman Ricardo, were of Puerto Rican ancestry, which was one reason for the style's popularity among Latino Americans and Italian Americans, especially in the New York City area.

During the first part of his reign Honorius depended on the military leadership of the general Stilicho, who had been appointed by Theodosius and was of mixed Vandal and Roman ancestry.

Titus Flavius Josephus ( 37 – 100 ), also called Joseph ben Matityahu ( Biblical Hebrew: יוסף בן מתתיהו, Yosef ben Matityahu ), was a 1st-century Romano-Jewish historian and hagiographer who was born in Jerusalem-then part of Roman Judea-to a father of priestly descent and a mother who claimed royal ancestry.

The Bychowiec Chronicles, dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, have been discredited in this regard, since they assert an ancestry from the Palemonids, a noble family said to have originated within the Roman Empire.

He was of Italian Roman ancestry on his mother's side and of Punic or Libyan-Punic ancestry on his father's.

Andrey Kharitonovich Tolstoy was in turn a great-grandson of some Indris who was " a man of distinguished ancestry " who came from " the Germans, the Caesar's lands " ( the Holy Roman Empire ) to Chernigov, accompanied by his sons Litvinos and Zimonten and a force of 3000 men.

Traceable up to six generations, her father's paternal ancestry includes Sampsiceramus, a Syrian chieftain who founded the Royal family of Emesa ( modern Homs, Syria ) and Gaius Julius Bassianus, a high priest from Emesa and father of Roman Empress Julia Domna.

Drusilla was of Berber, Greek and Roman ancestry.

His father was Flavius Gaudentius, a known Roman soldier of Scythian extraction, and his mother, whose name is unknown, was a wealthy aristocratic woman of Italian ancestry.

Greene was a Roman Catholic of Irish and Scottish ancestry, and was born in Plymouth, Devon, England.

Though her Roman ancestry is possible-perhaps merely her name and the ideas it evoked-she emerges as a Greek deity.

This was said to have been in recognition of the Elymians ' claim of Trojan ancestry, which was seen as making them cousins of the Roman people, who also claimed to have been descended from the Trojans.

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Of Roman ancestry, he destroyed a statue of the god Dionysus and was beheaded.

Ulpian (; ; c. 170 – 228 ) was a Roman jurist of Tyrian ancestry.

Local residents are predominantly English-speaking Roman Catholics, the population core having Highland Scottish ancestry ; MacDonalds / MacDonnells mostly.

He is of mainly Irish ancestry and was raised Roman Catholic, attending Nativity of Our Lord Catholic Grade School, where he played Adam Apple in an eighth grade production of " Krazy Kamp ".

Matthias Corvinus ' court historian Antonio Bonfini flattered his king by tracing the family's ancestry to the Roman gens Corvina, or Valeriana, while adding: " for this man was indeed born of a Romanian father and a Hungarian mother " A contemporary Hungarian historian Johannes de Thurocz, similarly flattering his king, wrote in the Chronicle of the Hungarians ( Chronica Hungarorum ) that the Hunyadi family was of Hunnic origin, even calling Matthias Corvinus the " Second Attila ".

These four gilded horses, now called the Horses of Saint Mark, whose exact Greek or Roman ancestry has never been determined, were looted during the Fourth Crusade in 1204 and installed on the façade of St Mark's Basilica in Venice.

While the completed parts of the work do aim to be exhaustive, and are remarkably detailed, many of its entries reflect more of Hasdeu's own vision than historical facts ( in one famous entry, he claims to be able to trace Basarab I's ancestry in a direct line to the Dacian rulers, with Dacia as a developed state that would have had, at times, dominated the Roman Empire — to the point where the single ruling family would have given Rome a large number of emperors ).