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Michael IX Palaeologus was born on April 17, 1278.
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Andronicus III Palaeologus was born on March 25, 1297.
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Andronicus III Palaeologus was born on March 25, 1297.
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Michael IX Palaeologus died on October 12, 1320 at the age of 42.
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Michael IX Palaeologus died on October 12, 1320 at the age of 42.
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Michael IX Palaeologus was born on April 17, 1278 and died on October 12, 1320. Michael IX Palaeologus would have been 42 years old at the time of death or 737 years old today.
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Jacobus Palaeologus is known for his work "De Re Militari" (On Military Matters), a military treatise written in the 15th century. The book covers topics such as tactics, strategy, and the organization of armies.
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Roberto Zamarripa has written:
'Sonora 91' -- subject(s): History, Politics and government, Police corruption, Political corruption, Corrupt practices, Elections
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The longest reigning Roman Emperor was also the first, Augustus. Depending on when you decide his reign began (some people say 31B.C while others say 27B.C) he either ruled 45 or 41 years. There was a 5th Century emperor named Theodosius II who reigned for 42 years, but he ruled over the Eastern Empire only, and acceded to the Imperial thorne at the age of 7. So the answer depends on how you define the reign of Augustus and what exactly constitutes a Roman Emperor. Theodosius II held the power definitively longer than Augustus did, but he never actually ruled from or over Rome, although they Western Empire was still extant at the time.
There was another longer lived emperor from the later Macedonian Dynasty named Basil II. His reign lasted from 10 January 976 to 15 December 1025. This was not the same Roman Empire that Augustus and his early successors had built though. By this time the empire had shrunk to the Balkan Peninsula and Asia Minor. Despite this, Basil ruled over a stable and affluent Empire.
A later emperor of the Palaeologus Dynasty named John V Palaeologus who reigned (on and off between usurpations) from 1341 to 1391. While he held the title Emperor of the Romans, the reality was that the empire had shrunk to the confines of Constantinople and the Despot of Morea in the Greek Peloponess.
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Here is what Wikipedia says about the relics of St. Andrew:
"The purported relics of the Apostle Andrew are kept at the Basilica of St Andrew in Patras, Greece; the Duomo di Sant'Andrea, Amalfi, Italy; St Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland; and the Church of St Andrew and St Albert, Warsaw, Poland. There are also numerous smaller reliquaries throughout the world.
St Jerome wrote that the relics of St Andrew were taken from Patras to Constantinople by order of the Roman emperor Constantius II around 357 and deposited in the Church of the Holy Apostles. The head of Andrew was given by the Byzantine despot Thomas Palaeologus to Pope Pius II in 1461. It was enshrined in one of the four central piers of St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. In September 1964, Pope Paul VI, as a gesture of goodwill toward the Greek Orthodox Church, ordered that all of the relics of St Andrew that were in Vatican City be sent back to Patras. The relics, which consist of the small finger, part of the top of the cranium of Andrew, and small portions of the cross on which he was martyred, have since that time been kept in the Church of St Andrew at Patras in a special shrine and are revered in a special ceremony every November 30, his feast day."
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Born: early first century AD, Bethsaida
Died: mid- to late first century AD, Patras
Venerated in all Christianity
Major shrine: Church of St Andreas at Patras, with his relics
Feast: November 30
Attributes: Old man with long (in the East often untidy) white hair and beard, holding the Gospel Book or scroll, sometimes leaning on a saltire
Patronage: Scotland, Ukraine, Russia, Sicily, Greece, Romania, Diocese of Parañaque, Philippines, Amalfi, Luqa (Malta) and Prussia; Diocese of Victoria, Army Rangers, mariners, fishermen, fishmongers, rope-makers, singers, golfers and performers
Andrew the Apostle (Greek: Ἀνδρέας, Andreas; early first century—mid to late first century AD), called in the Orthodox tradition Protokletos, or the First-called, is a Christian Apostle and the brother of Peter the Apostle. The name "Andrew" (from Greek : "ἀνδρεία", Andreia, manhood, or valour), like other Greek names, appears to have been common among the Jews from the second or third century BC. No Hebrew or Aramaic name is recorded for him. The New Testament records that Andrew was the brother of Simon Peter, by which it is inferred that he was likewise a son of Jonah, or John.[Mt. 16:17] [Jn. 1:42] He was born in Bethsaida on the Sea of Galilee.[Jn. 1:44] Both he and his brother Peter were fishermen by trade, hence the tradition that Jesus called them to be his disciples by saying that He will make them "fishers of men" (Greek: ἁλιεῖς ἀνθρώπων, halieis anthropon). [1] At the beginning of Jesus' public life they occupied the same house at Capernaum.[Mk. 1:21-29] The Gospel of John teaches that Andrew was a disciple of John the Baptist, whose testimony first led him and John the Evangelist to follow Jesus.[Jn. 1:35-40] Andrew at once recognized Jesus as the Messiah, and hastened to introduce him to his brother.[Jn. 1:41] Thenceforth, the two brothers were disciples of Christ. On a subsequent occasion, prior to the final call to the apostolate, they were called to a closer companionship, and then they left all things to follow Jesus.[2] In the gospel Andrew is referred to as being present on some important occasions as one of the disciples more closely attached to Jesus,[3] Eusebius quotes Origen as saying Andrew preached in Asia Minor and in Scythia, along the Black Sea as far as the Volga and Kiev. Hence he became a patron saint of Ukraine, Romania and Russia. According to tradition, he founded the See of Byzantium (Constantinople)[4] in AD 38, installing Stachys as bishop. His presence in Byzantium is also mentioned in the apocryphal Acts of Andrew written sometime during the second century. This diocese would later develop into the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Andrew is recognized as its patron saint. Andrew is said to have been martyred by crucifixion at Patras (Patrae) in Achaea. Though early texts, such as the Acts of Andrew known to Gregory of Tours,[5] describe Andrew bound, not nailed, to a Latin cross of the kind on which Christ was crucified, a tradition grew up that Andrew had been crucified on a cross of the form called Crux decussata (X-shaped cross) and commonly known as "Saint Andrew's Cross"; this was performed at his own request, as he deemed himself unworthy to be crucified on the same type of cross on which Christ was crucified.[6] "The familiar iconography of his martyrdom, showing the apostle bound to an X-shaped cross, does not seem to have been standardized before the later Middle Ages," Judith Calvert concluded after re-examining the materials studied by Louis Réau.[7] Andrew is the patron saint of Patras. According to tradition his relics were moved from Patras to Constantinople, and thence to St Andrews (see below). Local legends say that the relics were sold to the Romans. The head of Andrew, considered one of the treasures of St Peter's Basilica, was given by the Byzantine despot Thomas Palaeologus to Pope Pius II in 1461. In recent years, by decision of Pope Paul VI in 1964, the relics that were kept in the Vatican City were sent back to Patras. The relics, which consist of the small finger, part of the top of the cranium of Andrew and small parts of the cross, have since that time been kept in the Church of St Andrew at Patras in a special shrine and are revered in a special ceremony every November 30.
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