Utilisateur:Leonard Fibonacci/Aristobule de Britannia
Témoins littéraires et toponymes modifier
(1) Dortheus, Bishop of Tyre (AD 303) “Aristobulus who is mentioned by the Apostle in his Epistle to the Romans, was made Bishop in Britain. (cf. Genealogies of the Saints of Britain or Achau Saint Prydain, in Albion Restored, De Arthur Eedle)
(2) Haleca, Bishop of Augusta - “The memory of many martyrs is celebrated by the Britons, especially that of St. Aristobulus, one of the seventy disciples.” (cf. Genealogies of the Saints of Britain or Achau Saint Prydain, in Albion Restored, De Arthur Eedle)
(3) Genealogies of the Saints of Britain written by Achau Saint Prydain: “There came with Bran the Blesses from Rome to Britain - Arwystly Hen (Aristobulus the Aged). Ilid, Cyndaf, men of Israel, Maw of Mawan, son of Cyndaf.” (cf. Genealogies of the Saints of Britain or Achau Saint Prydain, in Albion Restored, De Arthur Eedle)
(4) Adonis Martyrologia, “March 15. Natal day of Aristobulus, Bishop of Britain, brother of St. Barnabus the Apostle, by whom he was ordained Bishop. He was sent to Britain where, after preaching the truth of Christ and forming a church, he received martyrdom” (cf. Genealogies of the Saints of Britain or Achau Saint Prydain, in Albion Restored, De Arthur Eedle)
(5) Cardinal Alford, second to Cardinal Baronius as the most authoritarian Vatican historian, “It is perfectly certain that before St. Paul had come to Rome, Aristobulus, was absent in Britain.”
(6) A district in Montgomeryshire along the River Severn, memorializes Aristobulus, by calling it “Arwystl-Hen”
(7) Greek Menology: “Aristobulus, the divine Apostle of Christ, was one of the disciples…and when Paul ordained bishops in every country, he ordained Aristobulus bishop in the country of the Britons - who were unbelievers and rude and fierce men - and he departed thither and at other times being dragged through the streets, and again at other times derided, persuaded many to turn to Christ and to be baptized; and he founded churches and appointed priests and deacons, and there he died.”
(8) Hippolytus (born about AD 160, mentions Aristobulus in his list as “Bishop of the British.”
(9) Tertullian (AD 193-220) confirms that there were Christian converts in Britain in areas that Roman rule had not penetrated
(10) Welch Triads describe him as a man of Italy.
(11) Alrod, Regia Fides, p41: Aristobulus was the first British bishop and the only one martyred by them…
(12) Tombstone was uncovered at St. George’s, Fordington, Dorsetshire, which states: “Gaius Aristobulus, a Roman citizen, aged…years; Rufinus and Marina and Avca, his children, and Romana his wife.” Was Rufinus names after Rufus Pudens, the half-brother of Paul?
(13) In Greek, Eubulus and Aristobulus were the same, as Eu and Aristo are similar Greek prefixes. “Greetings from Eubulus, Pudens, Linus, Claudia, (Gladys in Britain), and from all the brotherhood here.” (2 Tim 4:21) Does this sound like a family greeting, from the house of Pudens in Rome? (Stough, Henry, Dedicated Disciples, 164-167)
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- Genealogies of the Saints of Britain or Achau Saint Prydain, in Albion Restored, de Arthur Eedle