Firmilian (Roman governor)
Firmilian was the Roman governor of the Iudaea Province, during the third Late Roman Period of the Roman rule over the region. He was the third of a succession of governors (Flavianus, Urbanus, and Firmilian) who enforced the Diocletian Persecution at Caesarea, the province's capital, which lasted for twelve years.[1] He is commonly referred as cruel and sadistic[1][2][3][4] for torturing and killing many Christians and being heartless even to his close allies.[3][4] He was beheaded for his crimes, by the emperor Maximinus’s order, as his predecessor Urbanus had been two years before.[5]
References
- ^ a b Alban Butler (1894). Lives of the Saints: March 5. Benziger Bros.
- ^ St. Pamphilus, martyr., June 1
- ^ a b Saints Theodulus and Julian, Martyrs
- ^ a b Saints of the Day: February 17 — Saint Patrick's Church
- ^ Saints Adrian and Eubulus - Lives of the Saints: March 5