Maximian

Images that draw the viewer's attention are the characters of Diocletian and Maximian, placed among the prosecutors of Christianity, painted in the river of fire in the Last Judgment icons of Moldavian wooden churches (32).

Simeon bar Yotzadaq had inspected the inscription, presumably at its entrance, and found it to be dedicated by Diocletian (emperor from 284 to 305) to the godly nature of his brother Hercules, by whom Diocletian may have simply meant Hercules as the god of Tyre, although it has also been suggested that he was referring to his co-emperor Maximian. (19) Both Lieberman and Safrai take this to mean that the Tyre fair was a forbidden one but, in order to maintain their argument, are forced to read into the story the presence of tax immunity granted in honor of the pagan deity, even though the reported inscription makes no mention of taxes at all.

Maximian was a barbarian of the lowest extraction, endowed with little more than brute strength.

Sweida, south Syria (SANA)- Shaqqa archaeological town, 27km northeast Sweida city, assumed an important position during the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD as the Romans named it after the name of their emperor Maxim, to be known as Maximianpolis or the 'City of Maximian'.

Saint Eulalia of Merida, (c 290 AD-304) is said to have presented herself at the law court of the governor Dacian at Emerita where she professed herself a Christian, insulted the pagan gods and the Emperor Maximian (co-Emperor with Diocletian) and challenged the authorities to martyr her.

The book here links the Maximian interpretation of the Dionysian "divine powers" with the hesychast "participation in the divine energies".

Saint Hermes, converted to Christianity through the intervention of Pope Alexander, was baptized along with 1,250 of his people on Easter Day, and in Gregory's Dialogues, Maximian of Syracuse baptizes a girl on Holy Saturday.

The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus--Malchus, along with Maximian, Martinian, Dionysius, John, Serapion, and Constantine--were honored as saints for centuries.

The chronicler Braitmichel also relied on Eusebius ("the historian of old of the early church") in his general account of the "tenth and most intense persecution" of the Christians under Diocletian and Maximian.--Chronicle, 30-31.

Rotrou's first act, which takes as its subject the engagement of Diocletian's daughter Valerie to Maximin (Galerius Maximian, 305-11), conqueror of the East, with whom Diocletian has chosen to share the title of emperor, approaches the theatrical nature of kingship through allusion to Maximin's origins as a shepherd.

Some involve major historical figures, such as Maximian, the first archbishop of Ravenna, and Ennodius, bishop of Pavia.

He picked an old comrade named Maximian, also of humble origins, and installed him in Milan as co-emperor while Diocletian established himself in the east, at Nicomedia in Anatolia.