Jerome, Chronicle 218c-h
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Caesarea Maritima is indirectly attested at Jerome, Chronicle 218c-h. This passage was written ca. 380-381 C.E. possibly in Constantinople. St. Jerome undertook to write a universal history of the world early in his illustrious career. His work translated and annotated the second half of Eusebius’ work, finished over a half century earlier, which was organized into a tabulated concordance of chronological schemes (χρονικοὶ κανόνες) ranging from Abraham to Constantine I; he continued Eusebius in the same format with his own historical compendium for the years 327-378 C.E. This passage from Jerome’s translation of Eusebius records the Decian persecution, including the martyrdom of Alexander of Jerusalem at Caesarea.

Romanorum CCLVII Olymp(ias) ….. VII ….. Romanorum XXV regnavit Decius ann I mens III (c) Decius e Pannonia inferiore Budaliae natus fuit. I (d) Decius, cum Filippos patrem et filium interfecisset VII persecutio ob odium eorum, in (Christ)ianos persecutionem movet (e) Antonius monachus in Aegypto nascitur (f) Romae amphitheatrum incensum (g) Alexandro Hierosolymarum episcopo aput Caesariam Palestinae ob martyrium interfecto et Antiochiae Babyla Mazabanus et Fabius episcopi constituuntur (h) Decius cum filio in Abryto occiditur

[Ed. Helm 1956] [Minor corr.]

Year of the Romans 267th Olympiad ….. [251 C.E.] 7 ….. 25th (emperor) of the Romans, Decius, ruled for 1 year, 3 months (c) Decius from Pannonia Inferior had been born at Budalia. [252 C.E.] 1 (d) After he killed the Philips, father and son, because 7th persecution he hated them, Decius set in motion a persecution against the Christians. (e) Antony the monk is born in Egypt. (f) The amphitheater at Rome burned. (g) After Alexander, bishop of Jerusalem, was slain as a martyr at Caesarea Palestine and Babylas (likewise) at Antioch, Mazabanus and Fabius are appointed bishops. (h) Decius is killed with his son at Abrytus.

[Trans. J. L. Rife with ref. to Pearse 2005]

Works Cited

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[Easter Chronicle 504.7-505.6

Eusebius, Church History 6.39.3-4

George Cedrenus, Chronicle p. 453

George the Monk, Chronicle p. 467

Jerome, Illustrious Men 54.9

John Zonaras, Epitome of History 12.20=p. 2.133

Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos, Church History 5.26]

[Abrytus

Antioch on the Orontes

Budalia

Egypt

Jerusalem

Pannonia Inferior

Rome]

[Alexander, bishop of Jerusalem

Antony, monk

Babylas

Decius, emperor

Fabius, bishop

Herennius Etruscus

Mazabanus, bishop

Philip II, co-emperor

Philip the Arab, emperor]

[Christianity

Death and Burial

Entertainment

Family

Government and Law

Roman History]