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Symmachus and sent
* Aurelius Valerius Tullianus Symmachus, proconsul of Achaea ( Roman province ), to whom two laws of Constantine the Great were sent in AD 319, and consul in 330.

Symmachus and police
He returned to Rome 18 March to celebrate Easter Sunday, but this flouting of the Emperor's orders lost him the support of these two powerful individuals ; the inhabitants of Rome rioted, and the Urban prefect, Aurelius Anicius Symmachus, had his police occupy the Lateran, where Eulalius had made his base, and escort Eulalius out of the city to a house and kept under guard.

Symmachus and Lateran
* 498 – After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.
* November 22 – Anastasius is succeeded by Symmachus as the 51st pope, in the official papal selection in the Lateran Palace ( Rome ).

Symmachus and where
Symmachus was baptized in Rome, where he became archdeacon of the Church under Pope Anastasius II.
Established underneath the San Pacrazio basilica which was built by Pope Symmachus on the place where the body of the young martyr Saint Pancras, or Pancratius, had been buried.
Alan Cameron notes that Cassiodorus and Boethius both refer to him as " Macrobius Theodosius ", while he was known during his lifetime as " Theodosius ": the dedication to the De differentiis is addressed Theodosius Symmacho suo (" Theodosius to his Symmachus "), and by the dedicatory epistle to Avianus's Fables, where he is addressed as Theodosi optime.
This is also the rendering suggested in the Targum Onqelos, Symmachus and the Samaritan Targum which read " sons of the rulers ", where Targum Neophyti reads " sons of the judges ".
But having gone to Ariminum, Symmachus fled the city in the middle of the night, returning to Rome where he took refuge in St. Peter's.
Devotion to Pancras definitely existed from the fifth century onwards, for the basilica of San Pancrazio was built by Pope Symmachus ( 498-514 ), on the place where the body of the young martyr had been buried ; his earliest passio seems to have been written during this time.
The basilica of San Pancrazio fuori le Mura was built by Pope Symmachus ( 498-514 ), over the Catacombe di Ottavilla, where the body of the young martyr had been buried.

Symmachus and Eulalius
The Urban Prefect Aurelius Anicius Symmachus warned both parties to keep the peace, and wrote to the Emperor Honorius that Eulalius, who had been elected first and in due order, was in the right.

Symmachus and had
He was the son of Gordianus, a Roman priest who had been slain during the riots in the days of Pope Symmachus ( term 498 – 514 ).
* Pope Symmachus, accused of various crimes by secular authorities who supported an ecclesiastical opponent, asserted the secular ruler had no jurisdiction over him.
The session quickly deadlocked over the presence of a visiting bishop, for as Symmachus argued, the presence of a visiting bishop implied the See was vacant, and the See could only be vacant if he were guilty — which meant the case had already been decided before the evidence could be heard.
Pope Symmachus provided money and clothing to the Catholic bishops of Africa and Sardinia who had been exiled by the rulers of the Arian Vandals.
" The schism had lingered on largely out of personal hatred to Symmachus ," writes Jeffrey Richards, " something with which Hormisdas was apparently not tainted.
Relations between Symmachus and the emperor Anastasius had been virtually non-existent ".
Buoyed by this instruction, the pagan senators, led by Aurelius Symmachus, the Prefect of Rome, petitioned in 384 for the restoration of the Altar of Victory in the Senate House, which had been removed by Gratian in 382.
Valentinian, at the insistence of Ambrose, refused the request and, in so doing, rejected the traditions and rituals of pagan Rome to which Symmachus had appealed.
Not long afterwards Theodoric had Boethius ' father-in-law Symmachus put to death, according to Procopius, on the grounds that he and Boethius together were planning a revolution, and confiscated their property.
He himself indicates that he was intimately acquainted with the circle of the great orator Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, who scouted Stilicho's compact with the Goths, and who led the Roman senate to support the pretenders Eugenius and Attalus, in the hope of reinstating the gods whom Emperor Julian had failed to save.
Marcus Aurelius, Pliny the Younger and Symmachus also had villas there.
In more than one passage Symmachus had a tendency to soften anthropomorphic expressions of the Hebrew text ".
Eusebius also records Origen's statement that he obtained these and others of Symmachus ' commentaries on the scriptures from a certain Juliana, who, he says, inherited them from Symmachus himself ( Historia Ecclesiae, VI: xvii ) Palladius of Galatia ( Historia Lausiaca, lxiv ) records that he found in a manuscript that was " very ancient " the following entry made by Origen: " This book I found in the house of Juliana, the virgin in Caesarea, when I was hiding there ; who said she had received it from Symmachus himself, the interpreter of the Jews ".
In an age when all religious communities credited the divine power with direct involvement in human affairs, Symmachus argues that the removal of the altar had caused a famine and its restoration would be beneficial in other ways.
It was natural for Symmachus to sympathise with Magnus Maximus who had defeated Gratian.
He belonged to the Symmachi, one of the richest and most influential senatorial families in Rome ; his father, Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, had been consul in 446.

Symmachus and himself
Symmachus panicked, fleeing from Ariminum in the middle of the night with only one companion, and shut himself up in St. Peter's.
Finding himself victorious, Symmachus proceeded to call a synod held at Rome on March 1, 499, which was attended by 72 bishops and all of the Roman clergy, with the aim of confirming that his congregation accepted the king's judgment, as well as ensuring in the future there would be no rioting or illegal canvassing at election time.

Symmachus and him
While a deacon in Rome, he is known to have been a partisan of the Antipope Laurentius, for in a libellus written to Pope Symmachus in 506, John confessed his error in opposing him, anathematized Peter of Altinum and Laurentius, and begged pardon of Symmachus.
Memmius Symmachus raised him and instilled in him a love for literature and philosophy.
Jeffrey Richards credits him with persuading king Theodoric the Great to recognize Symmachus as the rightful Pope.
However, Symmachus contradicted the Ostrogothic king, who condemned him to death for treason in 526, one year after the execution of Boethius.

Symmachus and house
* Libri contra Symmachum -- (" Books Against Symmachus ") oppose the pagan senator Symmachus's requests that the altar of Victory be restored to the Senate house.

Symmachus and outside
Based on this introduction, Caesarius later wrote to Symmachus for help with establishing his authority, which Symmachus eagerly gave, according to William Klingshirn, " to gather outside support for his primacy.
) the use of the hymn at the Mass of Christmas Day and to Pope Symmachus ( 498 – 514 ) its use on Sundays and the feasts of martyrs, but only by bishops ; the right to use it was later extended to priests, at first only at Easter and on the day of their ordination, but by the end of the 11th century priests, as well as bishops, used it in the Mass on Sundays and feasts outside of Lent and Pre-Lent.

Symmachus and Rome
They were mentioned by Julius Caesar in his treatise, The Gallic Wars, and by 391 BC, they were written about by Roman Consul, Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, who received seven of them, " canes Scotici ", as a gift to be used for fighting lions, bears, that in his words, " all Rome viewed with wonder ".
* Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, urban prefect of Rome, pleads for traditional cult practices.
* March 1 – During a synod in Rome, which is attended by 72 bishops and all of the Roman clergy, Pope Symmachus makes Antipope Laurentius bishop of the diocese of Nocera in Campania.
* July 19 – Pope Symmachus dies at Rome after a 16-year reign and is succeeded by Hormisdas as the 52nd pope.
* Quintus Aurelius Symmachus becomes urban prefect of Rome.
Symmachus proceeded to call a synod, to be held at Rome on 1 March 499, which was attended by 72 bishops and all of the Roman clergy.
Symmachus sought to preserve the traditional religions of Rome at a time when the aristocracy was converting to Christianity, and led an unsuccessful delegation of protest against Gratian, when he ordered the Altar of Victory removed from the curia, the principal meeting place of the Roman Senate in the Forum Romanum.
As a representative of the political cursus honorum, Symmachus sought to preserve the ancient religion of Rome at a time when the senatorial aristocracy was converting to Christianity.
Two years later, Gratian was assassinated in Lugdunum, and Symmachus, now urban prefect of Rome, addressed an elaborate epistle to Gratian's successor, Valentinian II, in a famous dispatch that was rebutted by Ambrose, the bishop of Milan.
After Gratian's death, Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, the Prefect of Rome and a Pagan, wrote to the new Emperor Valentinian II in 384 requesting the restoration of the Altar.

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