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1750-1850
Leipzig University
‘Zenobia
Queen of Palmyra, she retained the Oriental Empire for quite a long time against the will of the Roman Emperor. Finally, however, Marcus Aurelian overcame her, took her prisoner, and led her in golden chains in triumph in the year 4223’
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Today we celebrate the Venerable Martyrs Galaction and Epistime. Saint Galaction was born to parents who could not conceive. Living as fervent pagans, Galaction’s mother came to learn about Christ through a secret priest who preached at people’s homes. The boy grew up in a pious manner and was educated well. When he was 24, his parents found him a noble bride by the name of Epistime. Before they were married, Galaction revealed to her that he was a Christian and preached the faith to her. She was immediately baptised and agreed to flee together to two monasteries on a nearby mountain, one for men and the other for women. A fierce persecution of Christians soon broke out and the pagans learnt of the location of these monasteries. The other monks and nuns fled, but Galaction remained in his cell reading the scriptures. The pagans seized him and as Epistime saw them dragging him away to torture, she asked for the blessing from her Abbess to suffer with her fiancé. They were lead to torture where they cut off their hands and feet, and tore out their tongues. They were then beheaded and their bodies left unburied. A dedicated former servant of Epistime, who too had become a monastic, took the bodies and reverently buried them, recording down their virtuous life and martyrdom. May the Venerable Martyrs intercede for us always + #saint #saints #galaction #epistime #emesa #martyr #martyrs #martyrdom #sinai #faith #pagan #child #mother #father #wedding #betrothed #monastic #monastery #monasteries #ascetic #fiance #fiancee #nun #monk #nuns #monks #abbess #venerable #orthodox #saintoftheday (at Sinai, Egypt) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkjPCAHLzHo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
THE SEVERANS AND THE CULT OF SOL INVICTUS
The Priest-King of the temple city of Emesa presided over the Syrian cult of the Sun God, El-Gabal. As seen on the reverses of these 3rd-century bronze coins, the god was worshipped in a large, lavishly-decorated temple, in the form of a large black meteorite belived to have fallen to earth from the sun.
Septimius Severus traveled to Emesa to seek the hand of the priest-king Julius Bassanius' younger daughter, the princess Julia Domna, in AD 187. The elder daughter, Julia Maesa, accompanied her sister to Rome in AD 193 following Severus' accession to the imperial throne.
At the age of 14,:Elagabalus, the son Julia Maesa's daughter, Julia Soaemias, assumed the throne in AD 218, restoring the Severan dynasty after the assassination of Caracalla and the short reign of Macrinus. His name, Elagabalus, identified him with the Emesan sun god, who had already been accepted into the porous Roman pantheon as Sol Invictus in the Republican period.
Elagabalus' attempted to supplant Jupiter as the chief deity of Rome in favor of going so far as to having the black meteorite transported from Emesa and installed in the a dedicated temple on the Palatine Hill. Attempts to displace the three dieties Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva, worshipped in the Capitolium with the Syrian Istarte, Urania, and Elgabal profoundly alienated the Roman senate and people. The drastic religious changes proposed by Elagabalus (and not the lurid sexual slanders later included in the Historia Augusta) probably caused the Praetorian Guard to support the plot, organized by Julia Maesa, to dethrone and assassinate the emperor in AD 221. He was replaced by Alexander Severus, the son of Julia Emaea, sister of Julia Soaemias, who ruled as the last Severan emperor until AD 235.
After the fall of Elagabalus, the meteorite was returned to its temple in Emesa.
Usurpers: Uranius Antoninus (250s CE)
Roman-Syrian mystery man who was proclaimed emperor in 253 CE. Not much is known about his life though some scholars believe that he was related to Julia Domna. Others have identified him with Sampsiceramus, a priest of Bal who helped to protect Roman border against Persians. Be that as it may Uranius Antonius vanishes from history after 254 CE.
Coin:
* Homs, 253-254
* obverse: bust of Uranius Antoninus.L IVL AVR SVLP ANTONINVS
* reverse: Quadriga and the stone of Bal (of Emesa). CONSERVATO-R AVG.
* Berlin State Museums
https://smb.museum-digital.de/index.php?t=objekt&oges=145221&cachesLoaded=true
Provenance/rights: Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Creator: Reinhard Saczewski ; Copyright Notice;CC BY-NC-SA
NEW MAP: Europe 74: Vespasian’s reorganization of the East (15 Apr 74 AD) https://buff.ly/376BF3b In the 70s AD Vespasian reorganized the eastern Roman Empire, primarily to strengthen the frontier provinces of Syria and Cappadocia. Galatia was added to Cappadocia, Lycia and Pamphylia were combined, and the client states of Rhodes, Commagene, and Emesa were annexed. #70s #74 #ancient #ancientrome #antalya #ancienthistory #cappadocia #cartografia #cartographic #anatolia #emesa #europe #europeanhistory #galatia #history #historyclass #historyfacts #historylesson #judea #mapping #maps #militaryhistory #phrygia #roman #romanempire #romanhistory #romans #syria #worldhistory #newmap (at Homs, Syria) https://www.instagram.com/p/B44MzG5g3K9/?igshid=1rq7c6wptp7kl
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fri night warmup sketch! based on a ref photo of the wilfred emesa hat 💖✌
Today we celebrate the Venerable Martyrs Galaction and Epistime. Saint Galaction was born to parents who could not conceive. Living as fervent pagans, Galaction’s mother came to learn about Christ through a secret priest who preached at people’s homes. The boy grew up in a pious manner and was educated well. When he was 24, his parents found him a noble bride by the name of Epistime. Before they were married, Galaction revealed to her that he was a Christian and preached the faith to her. She was immediately baptised and agreed to flee together to two monasteries on a nearby mountain, one for men and the other for women. A fierce persecution of Christians soon broke out and the pagans learnt of the location of these monasteries. The other monks and nuns fled, but Galaction remained in his cell reading the scriptures. The pagans seized him and as Epistime saw them dragging him away to torture, she asked for the blessing from her Abbess to suffer with her fiancé. They were lead to torture where they cut off their hands and feet, and tore out their tongues. They were then beheaded and their bodies left unburied. A dedicated former servant of Epistime, who too had become a monastic, took the bodies and reverently buried them, recording down their virtuous life and martyrdom. May the Venerable Martyrs intercede for us always + #saint #saints #galaction #epistime #emesa #martyr #martyrs #martyrdom #sinai #faith #pagan #child #mother #father #wedding #betrothed #monastic #monastery #monasteries #ascetic #fiance #fiancee #nun #monk #nuns #monks #abbess #venerable #orthodox #saintoftheday (at Sinai, Egypt) https://www.instagram.com/p/CV3QsYRLBbr/?utm_medium=tumblr
Today we celebrate the Venerable Martyrs Galaction and Epistime. Saint Galaction was born to parents who could not conceive. Living as fervent pagans, Galaction’s mother came to learn about Christ through a secret priest who preached at people’s homes. The boy grew up in a pious manner and was educated well. When he was 24, his parents found him a noble bride by the name of Epistime. Before they were married, Galaction revealed to her that he was a Christian and preached the faith to her. She was immediately baptised and agreed to flee together to two monasteries on a nearby mountain, one for men and the other for women. A fierce persecution of Christians soon broke out and the pagans learnt of the location of these monasteries. The other monks and nuns fled, but Galaction remained in his cell reading the scriptures. The pagans seized him and as Epistime saw them dragging him away to torture, she asked for the blessing from her Abbess to suffer with her fiancé. They were lead to torture where they cut off their hands and feet, and tore out their tongues. They were then beheaded and their bodies left unburied. A dedicated former servant of Epistime, who too had become a monastic, took the bodies and reverently buried them, recording down their virtuous life and martyrdom. May the Venerable Martyrs intercede for us always + #saint #saints #galaction #epistime #emesa #martyr #martyrs #martyrdom #sinai #faith #pagan #child #mother #father #wedding #betrothed #monastic #monastery #monasteries #ascetic #fiance #fiancee #nun #monk #nuns #monks #abbess #venerable #orthodox #sophia https://www.instagram.com/p/BpyQMWDF3Fk/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1j19v2p52r34h
