{"id":13965,"date":"2015-01-27T15:16:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T15:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=13965"},"modified":"2015-01-27T15:16:15","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T15:16:15","slug":"the-annals-of-eutychius-of-alexandria-10th-c-ad-chapter-10-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2015\/01\/27\/the-annals-of-eutychius-of-alexandria-10th-c-ad-chapter-10-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Annals of Eutychius of Alexandria (10th c. AD) \u2013 chapter 10 (part 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"

We continue reading the Arabic Christian <\/em>Annals by Eutychius, Melkite patriarch of Alexandria.\u00a0 The Sassanid kings, whose lost chronicle is used here, seem to have had a direct way with the Manichaeans.<\/em><\/p>\n

9. Alexander Caesar, King of the Romans, died.\u00a0 After him Maximinus Caesar (31) reigned over the Romans, in Rome, for three years.\u00a0 This happened in the thirtieth year of the reign of Sahur, son of Azdash\u012br, king of the Persians.\u00a0 This king Maximinus procured serious misfortunes and long affliction for the Christians.\u00a0 Many Christians were killed and people began to worship idols that they thought were gods.\u00a0 Many bishops were killed, and Babila, Patriarch of Antioch, was killed as well.\u00a0 When Narcissus, bishop of Jerusalem, heard that Babila, Patriarch of Antioch, had been killed, he fled and abandoned the see.\u00a0 In the second year of his reign\u00a0Diy\u016bs was made bishop of Jerusalem (32), instead of Narcissus.\u00a0 He held the office for three years and died.\u00a0 In the third year of his reign\u00a0Fabianus was made patriarch of Rome (33).\u00a0 He held the office for thirteen years and was killed.\u00a0 In the second year of his reign\u00a0Dionysius was made patriarch of Alexandria.\u00a0 He was a Katib.\u00a0 He held the office for seventeen years and died.\u00a0 In the second year of his reign Sabur, son of Azdash\u012br, king of the Persians, died.\u00a0 After him reigned Hurmuz, son of Sabur (34), i.e. Hurmuz al-Hurri, for one year and ten months and died.<\/p>\n

10. In the third year of the reign of Maximinus Caesar Bahram, son of Hurmuz (35), reigned over the Persians.\u00a0 He reigned for three years and three months.\u00a0 In the third year of the reign of Bahram, king of the Persians, Maximinus Caesar, King of the Romans, died.\u00a0 After him reigned Pupienus Caesar (36), called Julianus Caesar, for three months and was killed.\u00a0 After him Gordian Caesar (37) reigned over the Romans, in Rome, for four years.\u00a0 In the first year of his reign Flavian was made patriarch of Antioch (38).\u00a0 He held the office for eleven years and died.\u00a0 In the second year of his reign\u00a0Germanus was made bishop of Jerusalem.\u00a0 He held the office for four years and died.\u00a0 In the third year of his reign Bahram, son of Hurmuz, king of the Persians, died.<\/p>\n

11. After him Bahram, son of Bahram (39), reigned over the Persians for seventeen years.\u00a0 In his day appeared a Persian named Mani (40), who spread the Manichaean religion by going around claiming to be a prophet.\u00a0 Bahram, son of Bahram,\u00a0arrested him\u00a0and\u00a0cut him\u00a0in two.\u00a0 He then captured two hundred of his disciples and followers, and he put them in the ground up to neck until they died, saying:\u00a0 “I set up a vegetable garden, and instead of planting trees I planted men” (41).\u00a0 His followers and supporters of his doctrine were called Manichaeans,\u00a0after Mani’s name.<\/p>\n

12. In the third year of the reign of Bahram, son of Bahram, Gordian Caesar, King of the Romans, died.\u00a0 After him Philip Caesar (42) reigned over the Romans, in Rome, for seven years.\u00a0 He embraced the faith in Christ, our Lord.\u00a0 In the first year of his reign Gordian was made bishop of Jerusalem.\u00a0 He held the office for five years and died.\u00a0 In the fourth year of his reign Narcissus (43), the Bishop of Jerusalem that had escaped, came back, and together with Gordian administered the bishopric for a year.\u00a0 Then Gordian, Bishop of Jerusalem, died and Narcissus, bishop of Jerusalem, held the seat for [another] ten years until he died, at the age of one hundred and sixteen years.\u00a0 As for the King Philip Caesar, his general named Decius revolted and killed him and took possession of the kingdom.<\/p>\n

13. Decius Caesar (44) reigned over the Romans in Rome for two years.\u00a0 This was in the tenth year of the reign of Bahram, son of Bahram, king of the Persians.\u00a0 The Christians suffered many hardships and grave evils at the hands of Decius who killed an incalculable number.\u00a0 Many people were martyred in his day, including Fabianus (45), patriarch of Rome.\u00a0 Then Decius left the city of Carthage (46) and traveled to Ephesus where he built, at the center of the city, a large temple in which he placed the idols, ordering the population to worship them and offer sacrifices.\u00a0 Those who\u00a0refused would be killed.\u00a0 For this reason he put to death many Christians, crucifying them on the walls of Ephesus.\u00a0 Decius then\u00a0took seven young men from among the families of some\u00a0magnates of Ephesus and entrusted to them the care of his clothing.\u00a0 The names of these young men were: Maximian, Amlicus, Dianus, Martinus, Dionysius, Antoninus and John.\u00a0 And since these seven young men were not accustomed to bow down before idols, the spies of the king\u00a0made him aware of this.\u00a0 The king went into a rage and ordered them\u00a0thrown into jail.\u00a0 Then having to\u00a0go away for an expedition,\u00a0he set\u00a0them free with the intention to\u00a0defer to\u00a0his return the decision on their fate.\u00a0 When the\u00a0king\u00a0left the city, the young men took all they had and gave it away\u00a0for charity.\u00a0 Then they went up onto a high mountain, called Kh\u0101ws (47), to the east of Ephesus.\u00a0 There was on that mountain a large cave, and they hid themselves.\u00a0 Each day, one of them in turn left that place and went into town to hear what people said of them, to buy food and to inform the others when he returned.\u00a0 The king Decius returned and asked for news of the young men.\u00a0 They told him that they were on the mountain, in the cave.\u00a0 He ordered that the entry should be blocked so that they should die.\u00a0 But God caused a deep sleep to\u00a0descend\u00a0on the seven youths and they fell asleep so that they almost seemed dead.\u00a0 A general of the King picked up a\u00a0sheet of lead and wrote on it their history and what there was between them and the king Decius.\u00a0 Then he put the plate of lead in a copper box, and he left it inside the cave\u00a0when the entry was blocked.<\/p>\n

14. The king Decius died.\u00a0 After him two kings reigned in Rome, over the Romans: Ghalliy\u016bs Caesar and Y\u016bliy\u0101n\u016bs\u00a0 Caesar (48) for two years.\u00a0 This was in the twelfth year of the reign of Bahram, son of Bahram, king of the Persians.\u00a0 In the first year of their reign Cornelius was made patriarch of Rome (49).\u00a0He held the see for two years and died. \u00a0In that same year\u00a0Demetrianus was made patriarch of Antioch.\u00a0He held the office for eight years and died.<\/p>\n

15. The king Y\u016bliy\u0101n\u016bs died and eighteen days afterwards the king Ghalliy\u016bs, his partner, was killed.\u00a0 After them reigned over the Romans Ghalitit\u016bs Caesar, called Al\u0101riy\u0101n\u016bs Caesar (50), for fifteen years.\u00a0 This happened in the fourteenth year of the reign of Bahram, son of Bahram, king of the Persians.\u00a0 In the first year of his reign Maximus was made patriarch of Alexandria.\u00a0 He held the\u00a0office for eighteen years and died.\u00a0 In the same year\u00a0Lucius was made patriarch of Rome (51).\u00a0 He held the office for eight months and died.\u00a0 After him Ust\u0101tiy\u016bs was made patriarch of Rome (52). He held the office for six years and died.\u00a0 In the eighth year of his reign Sixtus was made patriarch of Rome (53).\u00a0 He held the seat for nine years and died.\u00a0 In that same year\u00a0Domnus was made patriarch of Antioch.\u00a0 He held the office for three years and died.\u00a0 In the twelfth year of his reign Timothy was made patriarch of Antioch.\u00a0 He held the office for three years and died.\u00a0 In the fifth year of his reign\u00a0Alexander was made bishop of Jerusalem (54).\u00a0 He had held the seat for seven years when this king had him killed in the city of Caesarea in the eleventh year of his reign.\u00a0 In the fourteenth year of his reign\u00a0Marz\u0101b\u0101n was made bishop of Jerusalem.\u00a0 He held the seat for twenty-one years and died.\u00a0 In the seventh year of the reign of Ghalin\u012bt\u016bs Caesar\u00a0the martyr Cyprian was killed in a village named Arshaginnah (55).\u00a0 \u2018Alitin\u016bs Caesar was very cruel towards Christians and procured them many evils.\u00a0 His son (56) went out to war against the Persians, but they took him prisoner and brought him to Bahram, son of Bahram, king of the Persians, who had him beheaded.\u00a0 When Ghallitin\u016bs Caesar learned that Bahram, son of Bahram, king of the Persians, had beheaded his son, he felt great pain and desisted from\u00a0doing harm to the Christians.\u00a0 In the fifth year of his reign died Bahram, son of Bahram, king of the Persians (57).\u00a0 After him reigned Bahram, who is also the son of Bahram,\u00a0called Shashan Shah (58), for four months and died.\u00a0 After him reigned his brother Narsi (59), son of Bahram, son of Sabur, son of Azdashir, son of Babak, son of Shashan.\u00a0 He reigned over the Persians for nine years and died.\u00a0 In the fourteenth year of his reign, i.e. the\u00a0reign of Ghallitin\u016bs Caesar, Hurmuz, son of Narsi (60), reigned over the Persians for seven years and five months and died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We continue reading the Arabic Christian Annals by Eutychius, Melkite patriarch of Alexandria.\u00a0 The Sassanid kings, whose lost chronicle is used here, seem to have had a direct way with the Manichaeans. 9. Alexander Caesar, King of the Romans, died.\u00a0 After him Maximinus Caesar (31) reigned over the Romans, in Rome, for three years.\u00a0 This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[672],"class_list":["post-13965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-eutychius"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}