Theban Legion
Theban Legion The Theban legion figures in hagiography as an entire Roman legion — of "six thousand six hundred ...
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Saint Verena
... Verena, Stuttgart (?), 1524 Saint Verena of the Theban Legion departed on the 4th day of Thout ... 14). She was brought up in the Theban region (modern day Luxor in Upper Egypt ... and baptized her. Saint Verena joined the Theban Legion in its mission to Rhaetia (modern ...
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Legio I Maximiana
... Maximiana (of Maximian) was a comitatensis Roman legion, probably created in the year 296 or ... newly created province Thebaidos, in Aegyptus. The legion is also known as Maximiana Thebanorum or Thebaeorum ("Maximian legion of the Thebans"). Since no Legio I ... Thebaidos. There exists also a purely legendary Theban Legion in the legend of Saint Maurice ...
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Saint Maurice
... was the leader of the legendary Roman Theban Legion in the 3rd century. The traditional story of Christian mythology is that the legion, entirely composed of Christians, had been called ... fellow bishop Salvius. Alternate versions have the legion refusing Maximian's orders only after discovering ... not been used to discipline a Roman legion for centuries: the previous documented execution ...
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Continual prayer
... had it that around 286 AD, a Theban Legion under the command of a certain Maurice ... in petition for victory. Maurice and his Theban Legion refused. The Roman Emperor Maximian ordered a “decimation” of the legion of 7000; one in every ten ...
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Agaunum
... to the cult of an entire Roman legion, the legendary Theban Legion, martyred at the spot, when this entirely Christian legion refused to sacrifice to the Emperor Maximian ...
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Thebes
... The adjective related to both places is Theban. See also: The Theban Legion, martyred in the year 286. The Theban alphabet. Thebes is the name of a ...
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User talk:Alexander the Great/Archive2
... army than he had the French Foreign Legion. Lectiodifficilior 21:18, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC ... example, in Aeschylus' "Seven Against Thebes", the Theban chorus sing that the Argean army is ... Athenian audience would find too weird. A Theban was a foreigner to an Argean in ...
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Felix and Regula
... Regula were siblings, and members of the Theban legion under Saint Maurice, stationed in Agaunum in the Valais. When the legion was to be executed in 286, they ...
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Pontormo
... the Martyrdom of St Maurice and the Theban Legion (c.1531) depict crowds milling about in ... 1531: Martyrdom of San Maurizio and the Theban Legions.(Pontormo & Bronzino), 65x73, Uffizi. 1531: Noli ...
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