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====257-260 (8th) Persecution of Christians under Emperor Valerian (253-260)====
*257 [[StephenI of Rome|Stephen]], Bp. of Rome, dies, perhaps martyred; [[Novatian ]] martyred during persecution under Valerian.
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** Roman soldier Romanus baptised by Martyr [[Lawrence of Rome|Laurence]], and immediately beheaded [[August 9]].
** Roman Martyr [[Lawrence of Rome|Laurence]], Archdeacon, d. [[August 10]]
** Roman Martyrs Pope [[Sixtus II of Rome|Xystus II (Sixtus)]], Deacon Felicissimus, and Deacon Agapitus, d. [[August 10]];
** [[Hippolytus of Rome]], dragged by wild horses over stones, d. [[August 13]].
** [[Concordia of Rome]], foster mother of [[Hippolytus of Rome|Hippolytus]], executed and body thrown into an unclean place, [[August 13]].
*298 [[Karterios]], [[January 8]]; Martyr Diomedes the Physician of Tarsus in Cilicia [[August 16]].
=== Unknown dates ===
* Hieromartyr Therapon, Bp. of Cyprus, [[May 25]], ''c.'' 284-305 under Diocletian.
* Sozon of Cilicia, d. [[September 7]], ''c.'' 284-305 under Emperor Maximian.
:''[[Ephraim of Syria]] and greater part of Christian population take refuge in the city of Edessa after the city of Nisibus is ceded to the Sassanids.''
*366 Abraham the Great of Kidunj, the Recluse and his niece Mary of Mesopotamia (fd. [[October 29]])
*367 [[Hilary of Poitiers|Hilary]], Bp. of Poitiers [[January 13]].
** [[Ambrose of Milan|Ambrose]] appointed Bp. of Milan.
*375 Abdiesus, Bp. of Kashkar, and 38 companions, in Persia, [[May 16]].
*379 [[Basil the Great]], Bp. of [[Caesarea]] [[January 1]].
*380 [[Patapius of Thebes|Patapius]] born in the Egyptian city of Thebes; Deacon [[Aithalas the Persian]], martyred [[September 1]].
*412 [[Patrick of Ireland]] has a vision of God informing him that he will leave for Ireland; Barnabas of Asia Minor, and his nephew Sophronius, [[August 18]].
*415 ''Pelagianism is attacked at the [[Council of Diospolis]]''
*418 ''Pelagianism is condemned at the [[Councils of Carthage|Council of Carthage]]''
*419 King [[Brychan of Brecknock]] born, ca. 419, in South Wales.
*420 ''"Institutions of the Monastic Life"'' written by [[John Cassian]].
*687 [[Cuthbert of Lindisfarne|Cuthbert]], Bp. of Lindisfarne, [[March 20]].
*689 [[Benedict Biscop]], abbot of Jarrow, died at Wearmouth, CoDurham, [[January 12]].
*690 [[Theodore of Tarsus]], ABp. of Canterbury, [[September 19]]; [[Translation (relics)|Translation]] of the holy [[relics ]] of [[Birinus of Dorchester|Birinus]], ABp. of Dorchester to Winchester.
*693 [[Erconwald of London|Eerconwald]], Bp. of London [[April 30]].
*700 ''c,''[[Isaac of Syria]].
*714 [[Guthlac of Crowland]], hermit [[April 11]].
*716 [[Donald of Ogilvy]], Confessor of Scotland, [[July 15]].
*717 [[Dunchad Abbot of Iona]], [[March 24]].
*725 [[Cuthburga of Wimborne]], Queen and first abbess of Wimborne, [[August 31]].
*730 The Martyrs Julian, Marcian, John, James, Alexios, Dimitrios, Photios, Peter, Leontios, Maria the Patrician, the Protospatharios ("Sword-Captain") Gregory and Others suffered for holy icons under the Iconoclast emperor Leo the Isaurian (717-741), [[August 9]].
==Nineteenth century (1801-1900)==
*1803 Blessed [[Xenia of St. Petersburg]], [[February 6]].
*1804 [[Euthymius the Elder]], abbot of St. John the Baptist monastery in the Davit-Gareji Wilderness, d. [[August 8]].
*1805 [[Macarius Notaras of Corinth|Makarius of Corinth]], a central figure in the [[Kollyvades Movement]].
*1872 '''[[Phyletism]] declared [[heresy]] by [[Council of Jerusalem]].
*1877 Death of [[Arsenios of Paros]], [[January 31]].
*1879 [[Innocent of Alaska]], [[Equal-to-the-Apostles]], [[March 31]]; Nikolay Alexandrovich Motovilov, ''Servant to [[Seraphim of Sarov|Seraphim]]'', not glorified, d. [[January 14]].
*1882 [[Mitrophan Ji]] becomes the first Chinese ordained a priest in the [[Church of China]].
*1888 Glorification of the St. Petersburg [[Mother of God Joy of All Who Sorrow]] icon, [[July 23]].
*1890 ''c,'' ''[[Unseen Warfare]]'' further revised by [[Theophan the Recluse]].
*1891 [[Ambrose of Optina]], <ref>Saint [[Ambrose of Optina]] was canonised in 1988 by the local council of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]]</ref> died [[October 23]] (fd: [[October 10]]).
*1894 [[Theophan the Recluse]], [[January 6]].
*1900 [[Meletius of Ryazan |Meletius]], bishop of Ryazan, missionary to Yakutia, [[January 14]]; [[Martyrs of China|Martyrdom of Orthodox Christians]] in Chinese Boxer Rebellion (Yihetuan Movement), [[June 11]].