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| | Theodosius I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Theodosius was, briefly, the last ruler of a united Roman Empire - after the division between his heirs it was never again ruled by a single man. The emperor Gratianus appointed Theodosius Co-augustus for the East in 378 after the death of the emperor Valens at the Battle of Adrianople (378). |
 | | Theodosius was raised in a Catholic (to be understood not in the modern sense, but in the non- Arian, "universal" sense) family. |
 | | Theodosius I progressively forbade public sacrifices, closed temples, and colluded in frequent acts of local violence by Christians against major cult sites: the destruction of the gigantic Serapeum of Alexandria, in around 392, was only the most spectacular such occasion.(Peter Brown, The Rise of Western Christendom, 2003, p. |
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