Caledonia, as it was known then, was a frustrating place to be a Roman commander. Rome tried three times to conquer it—and ...

At the beginning of his poetry reading at Harvard last week, Brother Antoninus paced about the stage of Emerson D, glowered at his audience, and remained silent for several minutes. The protracted ...

shrank gradually through the reign of Antoninus, fell off precipitously after that, and disappeared altogether in the middle of the third century.... [In addition to the decline in imperial ...

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, better known as Elagabalus, ruled the Roman empire for just four years from 218AD to his assassination, aged 18, in 222AD. He became an increasingly controversial figure ...

Saints Victor and Stephanie contested in Damascus in 160, during the reign of Antoninus Pius. The pagans arrested Saint Victor as a Christian and cut off his fingers, put out his eyes, and beheaded ...

To the end of his life, while preaching Christ in all parts, he never put off his philosopher's garb. In Rome, he gave the Emperor Antoninus Pius (reigned 138-161) an apology wherein he proved the ...

Relationships with the Caledonian tribes north of the wall were, however, tenuous. Antoninus Pius was the man who gave his name to the Antonine Wall of 142 AD, which runs between the the Rivers ...

After Hadrian’s death in 138 CE, his son, Emperor Antoninus Pius, assumed power. Around 140 CE he ordered a new defensive wall built further north (in modern-day Scotland), some 100 miles from ...

The second Roman campaign into Scotland was conducted under the Emperor Antoninus Pius who ordered the construction of the Antonine Wall across the Clyde-Forth isthmus in AD 142. Roman family life ...

We love you dearly and you will be missed beyond measure. Visitation at St. Antoninus Church, 1500 Linneman Rd., on WEDNESDAY from 9:30 AM until time of Mass of Christian Burial at 10:30 AM.