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==Life==
Flavius Theodosius was born on [[January 11]], 347, in Cauca (modern Coca) in the Roman province of Spain, the son of Comes Theodosius (the elder) and Thermantia, who both were Orthodox Christians. He married Aelia Flacilla, by whom he had three children: two sons, Arcadius and Honorius (his future successors), and a daughter, Pulcheria. Aelia Flacilla (also ''Placilla'' or ''Plakilla'') is commemorated as a saint on [[September 14]]. Both Aelia and Pulcheria died in 385. After Aelia’s Aelia's death, Theodosius married Galla, the daughter of Valentinian I, by whom he had a daughter, Galla Placidia, the mother of Valentinian III.
As the son of a senior Roman military officer, Flavius Theodosius accompanied his father to Britannia to quell the Great Conspiracy in 368. In 374, he became the military commander (Dux) of Moesia on the lower Danube River, where he distinguished himself in battles with the Sarmatians. At about the same time that his father suffered disgrace and was executed in 375, Theodosius retired to his estates in Spain, apparently fearing further persecution because of his family ties. But his reputation was not forgotten.
