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    Cesare Baronio, C.O. (as an author also known as Caesar Baronius; 30 August 1538 – 30 June 1607) was an Italian Oratorian, cardinal and historian of the...
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    Magdeburg Centuries was the Annales Ecclesiastici by Cardinal Caesar Baronius. Baronius was a trained historian who produced a work that the Encyclopædia...
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    Church historians. Cardinal Caesar Baronius criticised Zosimus, favouring Eusebius' account of the Constantinian era. Baronius' Life of Constantine (1588)...
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    the Dark Ages ... if it was dark, it was the darkness of the womb". Caesar Baronius famously described it as the Iron Century, because it was 'iron in...
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    Caesar Baronius: Counter-Reformation Historian (1975), University of Notre Dame Press, p. 136. Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Ven. Cesare Baronius" ...
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    by the Italian cardinal and historian Caesar Baronius in his Annales Ecclesiastici in the 16th century. Baronius's primary source for his history of this...
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    historians such as Archbishop James Ussher, Caesar Baronius and John Hardyng, as well as classical writers like Caesar, Tacitus and Juvenal, although his classical...
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    grave of her daughters. The oldest version of the Passio is BHL 2966. Caesar Baronius introduced the saints to the Roman Martyrology in the late 16th century...
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    Decianus, at Caistor, modern-day Lincolnshire, Britain. According to Caesar Baronius and Hippolytus of Rome, Simon's first arrival in Britain was in the...
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  • recounting of the period has led sixteenth-century cardinal and historian Caesar Baronius in his Annales Ecclesiastici to call it the Saeculum obscurum, or dark...
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    Prominent among the candidates for the papacy were the great historian Caesar Baronius and the famous Jesuit controversialist Robert Bellarmine, future saint...
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    ended his life as a martyr in Antioch in the 1st century. According to Caesar Baronius' Annales Ecclesiastici, now considered historically inaccurate, Nicanor...
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    already regarded with suspicion by certain medieval writers, and since [Caesar] Baronius have been universally rejected". Neither Jerome nor Gregory of Tours...
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    visitors. About midnight he began hemorrhaging, and Baronius read the commendatory prayers over him. Baronius asked that he bless his spiritual sons before...
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    Kaleb is known as Saint Elesbaan after the sixteenth-century Cardinal Caesar Baronius added him to his edition of the Roman Martyrology despite his being...
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  • to the same senatorial family. The first to propound this view was Caesar Baronius: no ancient author speaks of two and Suetonius was able to speak of...
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    century. She is mostly venerated in England, not in Wales, which led Caesar Baronius to list her as an "English saint" in his Roman Martyrology of 1584...
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    The Donation continued to be tacitly accepted as authentic until Caesar Baronius in his Annales Ecclesiastici (published 1588–1607) admitted that it...
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    709) and Bede (died 735), who list the saints in their martyrologies. Caesar Baronius lists Anatolia and Audax under 9 July and Victoria under 23 December...
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    the presentation of Jesus at the temple, particularly by Cardinal Caesar Baronius in the 16th century especially because of the theme of purification...
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    June 28 – Domenico Fontana, Italian architect (b. 1543) June 30 – Caesar Baronius, Italian cardinal and historian (b. 1538) July 6 – Achille Gagliardi...
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    the Psalms, the Book of Job, and the Book of Revelation. Cardinal Caesar Baronius (1538–1607) wrote that, on the Monday of Easter week in 1304, Benedict...
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    appears to be preferred by some authors writing in Neo-Latin, e.g. by Caesar Baronius (d. 1607); Augustin Theiner (ed.) Caesaris S.R.E. Card. Baronii t....
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  • again in 1589, revised editions were published with corrections by Caesar Baronius along with indications of the sources on which he drew, and in 1630...
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  • series of mistranslations. The saint was inadvertently fabricated by Caesar Baronius when he mistranslated the notes of John Chrysostom while chronicling...
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    story may have evolved into the legend of Dorothea of Alexandria. Caesar Baronius identified the girl in Eusebius' account with Catherine of Alexandria...
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    Sanctuary of the Madonna della Figura and San Silvestro Papa. Suranus Caesar Baronius Luca Brandolini Ludovico Camangi Vittorio Cristini Alfredo De Gasperis...
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  • Joannes Zonaras (12th century), Carolus Sigonius (16th century), Caesar Baronius (16th-17th century), and Sethus Calvisius (16th-17th century). Antonopoulos...
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    (1887–1936). Beatified 13 October 2013. Feast 6 November. Catholicism portal Caesar Baronius Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, popularly known as Brompton...
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    century, although this attribution was disputed by the scholarship of Caesar Baronius, Ciampini, Schelstrate and others. The modern interpretation, following...
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