Word: diocletian
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...which the government is making to farmers through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation are going to cause endless trouble when payment falls due, he pointed out. "As for President Roosevelt's plan, I do not think if would do much as a general thing. Fifteen hundred years ago the Emperor Diocletian tried to control labor and prices to relieve a financial crisis. It did no good then, nor have subsequent government attempts to relieve depressions accomplished anything more...
...With Christian rites St. Vitus, a child, drove demons from a son of the pagan Roman Emperor Diocletian (284-305). Nonetheless, Diocletian had St. Vitus tossed into a kettle of boiling oil because he would not recant his Christianity. St. Vitus miraculously escaped from the oil, but died soon after from that and other tortures...
...upon Sempronius ordered her outraged. Miraculously she preserved her virginity. Then Sempronius ordered her burned at the stake. The fagots would not ignite. Thereupon the officer commanding her captors drew his sword and brutally sliced her head from her shoulders. This happened Jan. 21, 304, in the reign of Diocletian...
...great to finish. From birth perverse and self-contained, he had a permanent disfigurement which toughened his misanthropy. Love for mankind he never developed, but love for his work never deserted him. At 70 he was finishing the Palazzo Farnese, altering fortifications, making a church of the Baths of Diocletian, designing the Capitoline square, and planning the dome of domes for St. Peter's Cathedral. In 1564 he died, leaving comparatively little sculpture, his few majestic frescoes, a group of sonnets, all works of a lovely strangeness, a married strength and sweetness...
...great and good man, a bishop and a martyr, St. Januarius is not the Patron Saint of Earthquakes, but of Naples. Tortured and beheaded by the Emperor Diocletian, his skull and two phials containing his blood (see cut) are among the most sacred relics of Naples Cathedral. Eighteen times a year the phials of blood miraculously liquefy. The skull has a reputation for stopping eruptions of Mt. Vesuvius. While the faithful prayed in the square last week, dour Cardinal Ascalesi, splendid in scarlet soutane and sash, held high the gold-encased skull, blessed 20,000 worshippers...