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Callistratus Of Carthage
Callistratus of Carthage and his forty-nine companions were Christian martyrs executed at Rome during the Diocletianic persecution (303–311), now commemorated as saints in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. Their hagiography, known from the compilation of Symeon the Metaphrast, contains fantastic elements.John F. Shean, ''Soldiering for God: Christianity and the Roman Army'' (Brill, 2010), p. 211. According to the hagiography, Callistratus was a native of Carthage and a member of the "Chalendon" ''cohors'' of the Roman army. He was caught praying by some pagan comrades and hauled before the military tribune, who ordered him to offer sacrifices to the pagan gods. He refused, was tortured and finally tied in a bag and thrown into the sea. He was rescued by a dolphin A dolphin is an aquatic mammal within the infraorder Cetacea. Dolphin species belong to the families Delphinidae (the oceanic dolphins), Platanistidae (the Indian river dolphins), Iniidae (the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Callistratus With 49 Martyrs (Menologion Of Basil II)
Callistratus or Kallistratos may refer to: * Callistratus of Aphidnae (died c. 350 BC), Athenian politician of the 4th century BC * Callistratus (grammarian), Alexandrian writer of the 2nd century BC * Callistratus (jurist), Roman legal writer active in the 3rd century AD * Callistratus (sophist), Greek writer of the 3rd or 4th century AD * Callistratus, an Athenian poet, known only as the author of a drinking song in honor of Harmodius and Aristogeiton (c. 500 BC) * Callistratus, producer of some of Aristophanes' plays and his sometime collaborator * , a historian of perhaps the 1st century BC, author of local histories of Heraclea Pontica and Samothrace * Callistratus of Carthage, a Christian saint who is said to have inspired forty-nine soldiers to martyrdom in Carthage in the 4th century * Callistratus of Georgia (1866–1952), catholicos-patriarch of All Georgia from 1932 * ''Callistratus'', previous name of a Canadian research vessel, later renamed * Callistratus, the diabolic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |