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+ " 2/1/2010: January 30th -"
+ fntt + "molonlabe70.blogspot.com/2010/01/virginmartyr-chryse-of-rome.html>"
+ "Virginmartyr Chryse of Rome, in a BlogSpot.com entry has:"
+ " The Hieromartyr"
+ " Hippolytus, and the Martyrs Censorinus, Sabinus, Chryse the Virgin and 20"
+ " Others suffered in the year 269. The virgin Chryse was arrested and"
+ " brought for interrogation. She bravely confessed herself a"
+ " Christian and was subjected to torture. After horrible torments,"
+ " she was drowned in the sea."
+ " With St Chryse suffered the martyrs Ares, Felix, Maximus,"
+ " Herculianus, Venerius, Stiracius, Mennas, Commodus, Hermes,"
+ " Maurus, Eusebius, Rusticus, Monagrius, Amandinus, Olympius, Cyprus,"
+ " Theodore the Tribune, Maximus the Presbyter, "
+ "Archelaus the"
+ fpde + ", and Cyriacus the Bishop.
[ See"
+ fsel + "#0504>4 May for Hierosolymis sancti Cyriaci Episcopi"
+ ", the other"
+ fnew + "mepisc.htm ID=t>Episcopi who is associated with Ancona and"
+ " Jerusalem around 361 AD. ] "
+ "
... "
+ fsad + "11346a','Ostia bishop')
"
+ fntt + "www.concentric.net/~oplater1/naadsts.htm ID=dcomic18c>Quiriacus"
+ " (234 or 250?), Bishop of Ostia, martyr, ... is indicated at that site."
+ "
Presently a"
+ fntt + "CS.Berkeley.EDU/~jhauser/pictures/history/Rome/Ostia/>tourist"
+ " site, ""
+ fntt + "www.initaly.com/regions/latium/ostia.htm>Ostia Antica ","
+ " had formerly been the ANCIENT seaport serving"
+ frome + "at the end other end of the Via Ostiense 25 miles farther up the"
+ " Tiber River. The Via Portuense on the opposite (right) bank of the"
+ " Tiber has long been the preferred, primary route to Rome from Ostia. "
+ " The older, Via Ostia passes Mount Testico -"
+ " an archaeological treasure site made up of the shards of Roman 'tin cans'"
+ " (clay urns) of their day.(The so-called oratory of"
+ fnew + "csx.htm#exorcism ID=dcomic20c>Cyriacus, Largus and Smaragdus is"
+ " located at the 7 mile marker on the 'old' road (Via Ostia)"
+ " from"
+ frome + "to Ostia. That half-way point between the port"
+ " and the site of the"
+ fnew + "cox.htm#bathhouse>Baths of Diocletian would have been a"
+ " convenient place to"
+ fnew + "catacomb.htm#ostia1>make contact with"
+ fnew + "csx.htm#slaves>Christian slaves while they were marched to"
+ " their work site in"
+ frome + ". It would have been a logical resting place for both the"
+ " slaves and the soldiers guarding them. ) "
+ "
A good"
+ fntt + "depianteinrome.blogspot.com/2007/08/ostia-antica.html>'tour of"
+ " Ostia' blog site had posted on 8/29/2007:... and finally a"
+ " Catholic church dedicated to St. Cyriac, a martyr"
+ " from the 1st century AD. - indicating that there still is a"
+ " reference to a Cyriac in Ostia to this"
+ " day! [ The '1st century' reference"
+ " (vs 3rd or 4th) needs looking into - as does the exact "
+ "Cyriac martyr to whom this church is dedicated. ]"
+ "
Our problem with Ostia is whether it is"
+ " associated with Cyriacus, the Bishop of Ostia or"
+ fcyr + ", who may have had his relics moved there from the Baths of"
+ " Diocletian site, OR BOTH, or even a third individual about whom we've"
+ " discovered little, if anything, to this point. Our problem is"
+ " exacerbated by the lack of the records that were presumably all destroyed"
+ " at the beginning of the 4th century during the"
+ ffgp + ". It's quite obvious from current and historical records that"
+ " both the Bishop and Baths martyr are being associated with "
+ "Ostia although they were 'presumably' martyred a half-century apart"
+ " from each other.
"
+ fnew + "cemetery.htm ID=20>III. VIA OSTIENSIS
"
+ fsad + "03510a','12. Cemetery of Aquæ Salviæ'). "
+ " There was certainly a cemetery in early Christian times on or near the"
+ " site of the decapitation of St. Paul (now Tre Fontane); ... Farther"
+ " on was the cemetery of St. Cyriacus, mentioned in the"
+ " 'Mirabilia Urbis Romae' and seen by"
+ fnew + "cbx.htm#bosio ID=20m>Bosio at the end of the sixteenth century."
+ " Its exact site is no longer known. ...The"
+ fnew + " cbx.htm#Frend>Frend book (p. 24) indicates that "
+ "'Marco Antonio Boldetti (1663-1749), a' (scholar of Hebrew) 'whom Pope"
+ " Clement XI (Pope 1700-21) appointed as Custodian of the Sacred Cemeteries"
+ ", began well enough. In 1715 he entered a catacomb beneath the walls"
+ " of the church of St. Cyriacus seven miles along the"
+ " Ostian Way, which"
+ fnew + "cbx.htm#bosio ID=20m>Bosio had first identified.'"
+ " Boldetti was priest-in-charge of the church of Santa Maria Trastevere,"
+ " well placed for the catacomb exploration. He published his"
+ " 'Osservazione sopra i cimiteri di santi martyri ed antichi christiani di"
+ " Roma', sub-titled 'Riflessioni pratichi sopra il culto delle sagre"
+ " Reliquie' in 1720, but it's no longer to be found."
+ " Footnote 4: For Boldetti's career, see H. Leclercq in Dictionnaire"
+ " d'archeologie chretienne et de liturgie (Paris, 1907-53) II, 974-975."
+ "
Footnote 5: See F. Fornari, 'Le recenti explorazioni nel cimitero di"
+ " S. Ciriaco', Melanges d'archeologie et d'histoire de"
+ " l'Ecole francaise de Rome (1881-) 36 (1916-17), pp. 52-72."
+ "
The"
+ fnew + "cbx.htm#Vander>Van der Meer atlas, map #28, indicates both"
+ " Ciriacae catacomb with Saints Hippolytus and"
+ " Concordius immediately adjacent to 'Bas. S. Laurentii extra muros' with"
+ " 'Laurentius archdiaconus' along the Via Tiburtina AND Saints"
+ fnew + "csx.htm ID=dcomic18c>'Cyriacus, Largus, Smaragdus, etc.' next"
+ " to a southwestly pointing arrow (toward Ostia) and '7 mls.' along the"
+ " Via Ostiensis."
+ "
local sites "
+ fnew + "catacomb.htm ID=15bl>catacombs "
+ fnew + "cemetery.htm ID=15bl>cemeteries
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