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Theban Legion. The Theban Legion (also known as the Martyrs of Agaunum) figures in Christian hagiography [a] as a Roman legion from Egypt —"six thousand six hundred and sixty-six men" [b] — consisting of Christian soldiers [1] who were martyred together in 286, according to the hagiographies of Maurice, the chief among the Legion's saints.
Slaughter of the Theban Legion — C. 286 AD. The Theban Legion was one of the many Legions in the Imperial Roman army. When Rome conquered a country, a fighting force was enlisted from the citizenry, trained as Roman soldiers and dispatched, as needed, all over the Empire by the emperors. Legions were comprised of 400 to 6,000 men from many ...
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The primary account of the martyrdom of Maurice and the Theban legion occurs in a letter addressed by Eucherius, bishop of Lyons c. 434–50, to a fellow bishop, Salvius. . This relatively brief document has attracted a degree of scholarly attention out of all proportion to its length, the purpose of which has been to investigate its historical bas
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THEBAN LEGION. St. Eucherius, bishop of Lyons (434 – 450), tells of the decimation of a legion of Christian soldiers, recruited at Thebes in Egypt, which took place because they refused to shed innocent Christian blood in a campaign waged near Lake Geneva in Switzerland. Other accounts say that the soldiers died because they refused to offer ...
Jun 5, 2019 · Explore the history of Acaunum and the decimation of the Theban Legion, shedding light on a significant event in Rome's past.
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A Theban Legion is a known part of the Roman army and in the 4th century was in Egypt, where it was probably recruited. What most probably happened was that a number of men in the Theban Legion (and perhaps others also) who were Christians refused to take part in a pagan sacrifice and that Maximian made an example of them, first by two decimations, and when they proved futile, executed them all.
