Palmaria is an Italian island situated in the Ligurian Sea, at the westernmost end of the Gulf of La Spezia. Measuring 1.6 square kilometres (0.6 sq mi), it is the largest island of an archipelago of three closely spaced islands jutting out south from the mainland at Portovenere. The other islands, Tino, and the tiny Tinetto lie further south.

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The Menologion of Basil II (also called Menologium of Basil II, Menology of Basil II) is an illuminated manuscript designed as a church calendar or Eastern Orthodox Church service book (menologion) that was compiled c. 1000 AD, for the Byzantine Emperor Basil II (r. 976–1025). It contains a synaxarion, a short collection of saints’ lives, c…[Read more]

Stefano Antonio Morcelli – Stefano Antonio Morcelli (17 January 1737 – 1 January 1822) was an Italian Jesuit scholar, known as an epigraphist. His work De stilo Latinarum inscriptionum libri III, published in three volumes in 1781, which shows a rigorous method, a novelty and originality of approach, as well as a solid preparation, gave him his E…[Read more]

Saint Zoilus (died 304 AD) is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church. Christian tradition states that he was a young man martyred with nineteen others at Córdoba, Spain under Diocletian.

Cordoba, Ermita de San Zoilo, statue of the Saint over the portal
Died 304AD
Venerated in Eastern Orthodox Church
Roman Catholic Church
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Saint Chrysogonus – Saint Chrysogonus (Italian: San Crisogono) is a saint and martyr of ancient Rome venerated by the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Life
Chrysogonus was martyred at Aquileia, probably during the Diocletianic Persecution (AD 303–311), was buried there, and publicly venerated by the faithful of that region. He i…[Read more]

Synaxarion or Synexarion (plurals Synaxaria, Synexaria; Greek: Συναξάριον, from συνάγειν, synagein, “to bring together”; cf. etymology of synaxis and synagogue; Latin: Synaxarium, Synexarium; Coptic: ⲥⲩⲛⲁⲝⲁⲣⲓⲟⲛ) is the name given in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches to a compilation of hagiographies correspo…[Read more]

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Galerius and Constantine: Edicts of Toleration 311/313

Both in the case of the edict of toleration by Galerius and that by Constantine and Licinius, the original Latin text is to be found in Lactantius, and merely a Greek translation in Eusebius, (H. E., Bk. VIII, 17, and X, 5). Both Mason and Allard take this view. (For discussion of the…[Read more]

Appian Way – The Appian Way (Latin and Italian: Via Appia) is one of the earliest and strategically most important Roman roads of the ancient republic. It connected Rome to Brindisi, in southeast Italy.[1] Its importance is indicated by its common name, recorded by Statius,[2][3] of Appia longarum… regina viarum (“the Appian Way, the queen of…[Read more]

Martyrology of Usuard

The Martyrology of Usuard is a work by Usuard, a monk of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés.[1] The prologue is dedicated to Charles the Bald indicating that it was undertaken at that monarch’s instigation. It was apparently written shortly before the author’s death in 875.[2]

Usuard was a prominent member of…[Read more]

The Edict of Serdica, also called Edict of Toleration by Galerius,[1][2][3] was issued in 311 in Serdica (now Sofia, Bulgaria) by Roman Emperor Galerius. It officially ended the Diocletianic Persecution of Christianity in the Eastern Roman Empire.[4]

The Edict implicitly granted Christianity the status of religio licita, a worship that was…[Read more]

Pope Miltiades

Pope Miltiades (Greek: Μιλτιάδης, Miltiádēs), also known as Melchiades the African (Μελχιάδης ὁ Ἀφρικανός Melkhiádēs ho Aphrikanós), was the bishop of Rome from 311 to his death on 10 or 11 January 314. It was during his pontificate that Emperor Constantine the Great issued the Edict of Milan (313), giving Christianity legal s…[Read more]

The three earliest manuscripts which do survive of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum as such are all relatively late, from the 8th century, which means they have inevitably suffered interference in the course of transmission. The oldest of them[5] comes from the monastery of the Northumbrian missionary St Willibrord at Echternach and was…[Read more]

Martyrologium Hieronymianum – The Martyrologium Hieronymianum or Martyrologium sancti Hieronymi (both meaning “martyrology of Jerome”) is an ancient martyrology or list of Christian martyrs in calendar order, one of the most used and influential of the Middle Ages. It is the oldest surviving general or “universal” martyrology, and the precursor of…[Read more]