Caesarea Maritima

Tortured for twenty-four hours after having undergone excessive severities before, they manfully confessed one only God and one only Saviour Christ, and were at last beheaded.

On the same day at Antioch, Romanus, a deacon of the church of Caesarea, was martyred.

Happening to enter Antioch at the very time when the churches were demolished, he saw many men and women with their little ones crowding to the temples and sacrifices, most probably Christian apostates.

The same spirit which moved Mattathias, the father of the Maccabees, on a like occasion was felt by Romanus, but exerted in a manner more agreeable to the Christian dispensation.

Agapius and Thecla were condemned to the wild beasts.

At this time, when many apostatized to save their lives, there wanted not also some instances of an excessive forwardness.

Six persons at Caesarea, with their hands bound, ran to Urbanus the judge and offered themselves for martyrdom.

They suffered in conjunction with two others, whose spirit and circumstances in the manner of their departure out of life were more conformable to the rules of the gospel.

The presentiment of coming evil had made itself felt there also, but Paul was deaf to their entreaties to give up the journey to Jerusalem.

At Caesarea they left the ship, for their intention was to continue the journey by land, and spent some days in the house of Philip the deacon, the friend and companion of St. Stephen.

Hearing of their arrival, Agabus the prophet, who long years ago had foretold the coming of the famine, came down from the mountains of Judea.

Entering the assembly of the brethren, he took Paul's girdle, and with it bound his own hands and feet.

Manasson the Cyprian, an old disciple, had a house in Jerusalem.

He, with a few of the brethren, would go with them, that they might have at least a safe lodging during their stay.

Amidst said forebodings, Paul took leave of his friends in Caesarea, and the little party set out on foot.

The brethren received us gladly, says St. Luke.

Meanwhile, Philip found himself farther north at the town of Azotos.

He preached the good news there and in every town along the way until he came to Caesarea.

Acts 9 Meanwhile, Saul was uttering threats with every breath and was eager to kill the Lord's followers.

So he went to the high priests.

So Saul stayed with the apostles and went all around Jerusalem with them, preaching boldly in the name of the Lord.

He debated with some Greek-speaking Jews, but they tried to murder him.

When the believers heard about this, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus, his hometown.

The church then had peace throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria, and it became stronger as the believers lived in the fear of the Lord.

We read about this in Acts chapter 21 and verses 8 through to 10.

The Bible says, "...on the next day we who were Paul's companions departed and came to Caesarea and entered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him." That's Paul who stayed with him.

Now this man had four virgin daughters who prophesied.

And as we stayed many days, certain prophet, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

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because again like i yeah like i'm going through in the new trip in this this section like there are a lot of people that I've touched on that are more on the eastern side of things, like Cyprian, anyone who came from the Alexandrian in Egypt or the churches in Syria, Palestina, which is Caesarea, Maritima, they're all more part of the eastern tradition, but that's still part of the whole branch.

It starts to split a little bit more over the coming centuries, and that's when you'll start to get a more Roman Latin feel to the Western church, which is where the Protestant obviously church broke off of that.

So we just have more familiarity with how that went in Western history, as opposed to the Eastern side of the history.