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Cornelius was a centurion in the Cohors II Italica Civium Romanorum, mentioned as Cohors Italica in the Vulgate. [3] [4] He was stationed in Caesarea, the capital of Roman Iudaea province. [5] He is depicted in the New Testament as a God-fearing man [6] who always prayed and was full of good works and deeds of alms.
Roman generals were general officers of the Roman army, the principle ground force of Ancient Rome. They commanded the army during the numerous military conflicts Rome was involved in during the period of classical antiquity .
In the Roman army during classical antiquity, a centurion (/ s ɛ n ˈ tj ʊər i ə n /; Latin: centurio [kɛn̪ˈt̪ʊrioː], pl. centuriones ; Ancient Greek : κεντυρίων , romanized : kentyríōn , or Ancient Greek: ἑκατόνταρχος , romanized: hekatóntarkhos ), was a commander, nominally of a century ( Latin : centuria ...
Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo, or rather Lucius Varenus and Titus Pulfio [1] were two Roman centurions mentioned in the personal writings of Julius Caesar.Although it is sometimes stated they were members of the 11th Legion (Legio XI Claudia), Caesar never states the number of the legion concerned, giving only the words in ea legione ("in that legion").
During the Roman Empire, red crosses indicate persecution of Christians, while smaller red crosses stand for the Crusades. Red circles denote ecumenical councils . Suzi Feay of The Independent describes the chart's design for representing a large scope of human history as something that "resembles an unusually complicated digestive system, with ...
The Bible is a collection of canonical sacred texts of Judaism and Christianity.Different religious groups include different books within their canons, in different orders, and sometimes divide or combine books, or incorporate additional material into canonical books.
A cohort based in Caesarea is referred to in the Acts of the Apostles (Ancient Greek: σπείρης τῆς καλουμένης Ἰταλικῆς, "of the cohort called Italian", in Acts 10:1, translated as the Italian band in the King James Version, or the Italian Regiment in the Good News Translation and World English Bible), and is associated with Cornelius the Centurion, the first ...
Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item ... In the non-canonical Gospel of Peter, Petronius is the centurion who is ordered by Pontius Pilate to guard the ...