Roman Britain: Christianity in Caerleon
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- Part of the 'Ancient Faith of Britain: Orthodoxy in the Isles' series, this episode takes a look at Britain under Roman occupation - which lasted from at least A.D. 47 until A.D. 410 - and in the process introduces the lives of two saints important to Wales.
St Aaron and St Julius were martyred at Caerleon, Wales in the mid- to late-third century. Caerleon, meanwhile, was a settlement of significance long before the Roman arrived, and became a major Roman military and trading instalment. Their deaths, though, make it a place of pilgrimage.
Join me, Fr Jacob Siemens, Orthodox priest serving the Parish of St Theodore and St Teilo in Cardiff, Wales, as I take you on a journey across Britain - and Wales in particular - to learn more about how the Orthodox Christian Faith arrived here, about how it spread, and about some of its wonderful and inspiring saints.
Previous episodes can be found here:
Introduction to the Series:
• The Ancient Faith of B...
The Holy Grail, Glastonbury, and other Foundation Stories
• The Meaning of the Gra...
The Patron Saint of Cardiff:
• The Patron Saint of Ca...
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For those interested, the photograph featured at the opening and closing of the Roman Britain videos is of the beautiful Nant Gwynant, Cymru.
Thank you for this. Yes, I took the photo there when Fr Andrew and Fr Deiniol and I were travelling about the area from holy well to holy well.
@@orthodoxexchange The beautiful photography and insightful commentary have been outstanding. Le gach beannacht, Seán.
This series is a delight and an edification. It is heartening to see "Celtic Christianity" invoked in defence of orthodoxy rather than liberal revisionism.
@@joelreinhardt2084 thanks for that. Yes, the series seeks to establish the what is commonly called ‘Celtic’ is actually evidence for the presence of the ancient, apostolic Church in these lands. It is such an edifying story.
Thank you . I live in South Wales and this is so appreciated. It drew my attention to my own local history and I learnt that I once lived on the gwyrd mountain where a monetary was built. Much appreciated.
Thank you Father!!
I eagerly await your next installment.
Thank you Father for this video series.
Thank you Father. Peace be with you🙏☦️
Thank you father, for most interesting piece of history!
Thankyou Father. This was an edifying video.
There is a very lovely church in wales parish church in St Julian's - just down the road from Caerleon, with a beautiful statue of Sts Julius and Aaron. Definitely worth checking out!
Thank you
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Thankyou Father ! So wonderful to watch and learn about the history. I look forward to more of your videos on our Land of Christianity and I'm learning alot about the Saints too 🙏
Could you have a local at the “temple” in Caerwent? I wonder if it is actually an early church…
Prof Charles Thomas wrote about the archaeological record of Christianity in Late Roman Britain.
The date of the arrival of Christianity in Britain is very clearly stated in the illustrious Historia Britannorum compiled by Nennius in around 822 AD. The compilation in the Harleian 3859 manuscript is believed to have been assembled between circa 650 and 822 AD.
The statement is that Christianity arrived in Britain - " in the last year of Tiberius". This would be 36-37 AD as the Roman year commenced on a date different from our present first of January.
At the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, British Bishops had been given precedence at the council due to the fact that they were representing the church founded by Joseph of Arimathea.
In his history of the church in the forth century AD, Esebius Caesarea claimed the following - The apostles passed beyond the ocean to the Isles called the Britannic Isles ".
In Wales, Saint llid is commonly reputed too be the same person as Joseph of Arimathea.
The unmarked grave in Bute Park in Cardiff is of a person who is buried near to a Patriarch of Jerusalem who had requested to be brought back from Jerusalem to be buried there, it is said that he did so because he wanted to be buried in the same place as Joseph of Arimathea .
I have posted below a link to a company that are publishers on this and many other related subjects by many different authors, so as to enable you to carry out some research of your own.
www.covpub.co.uk/
It can be established through Vatican library records that the early Christian church was brought to these Isles shortly after the crucifixion. The Apostle Philip gave this commission to Joseph of Arimathea to spread the Gospel in these lands to the Celtic tribes, and the church that he founded in these islands was to become known as the Culdee church. There is plenty of circumstantial evidence to support the claim that the Isle of Avalon was actually in Glamorgan and not at Glastonbury. King Henry II of England wanted to rule over the whole of the British Isles, so as to legitimise his claim with the people he got his kinsman the Abbott of Glastonbury Abbey to fabricate a story which connects Joseph of Arimathea and King Arthur with Glastonbury when in reality their historical setting in Ancient Britain was South Wales. The reputed burial site of Joseph of Arimathea is in Cardiff not Glastonbury. The first inroads of the Papacy into these Islands was in 597 AD when Pope Gregory sent Saint Augustine to convert the pagan Jutes in Kent to the Catholic faith. Saint Augustine wrote back to the Pope that in the West of the Island he found an existing Celtic church, and that there was a church of Wattle and Daub built by no human art, but by the hand of God himself. The Celtic Culdee church spread throughout these islands from Joseph of Arimathea whose mission had been protected by the Silures tribe of South Wales and North Somerset during the Claudian invasion of Ancient Britain. This Celtic church was then taken from Wales to Ireland by Saint Patrick and after this Saint Columba took this Culdee church to the Western Isles of what was soon to become Scotland, taking the Stone of Destiny with him. One of Saint Columba's disciples Saint Aidan then took the Culdee church to Lindisfarne on Holy Island, which is off the Northumbrian coast in what was to become England at a future date. The Papacy exercised its power over the Culdee church at the time of the Synod of Whitby, and the Culdee church was forced to go underground in these islands from that time onwards. The Catholic church actually arrived as a power in Scotland with the marriage of Saint Margaret to Malcolm Canmore. As a Saxon Princess of England Saint Margaret was a staunch Catholic, and through her influence it wasn't very long before the Scottish Court converted to the Catholic church. In Ireland the Papacy and its Church arrived with the invasion of Henry II King of England in 1172 AD. The irony of the Reformation in these islands in the sixteenth century was that it was supposed to be a reformation of the original Culdee church, whereas in reality it was just a reformation of the Catholic church.
Please give evidence for these claims.
The date of the arrival of Christianity in Britain is very clearly stated in the illustrious Historia Britannorum compiled by Nennius in around 822 AD. The compilation in the Harleian 3859 manuscript is believed to have been assembled between circa 650 and 822 AD.
The statement is that Christianity arrived in Britain - " in the last year of Tiberius". This would be 36-37 AD as the Roman year commenced on a date different from our present first of January.
At the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, British Bishops had been given precedence at the council due to the fact that they were representing the church founded by Joseph of Arimathea.
In his history of the church in the forth century AD, Esebius Caesarea claimed the following - The apostles passed beyond the ocean to the Isles called the Britannic Isles ".
In Wales, Saint llid is commonly reputed too be the same person as Joseph of Arimathea.
The unmarked grave in Bute Park in Cardiff is of a person who is buried near to a Patriarch of Jerusalem who had requested to be brought back from Jerusalem to be buried there, it is said that he did so because he wanted to be buried in the same place as Joseph of Arimathea .
I have posted below a link to a company that are publishers on this and many other related subjects by many different authors, so as to enable you to carry out some research of your own.
www.covpub.co.uk/
A lovely video Father. Thankyou. I do feel, however, that you give far too much weight to Boudicca for holding up Roman advances west. Her rebellion was very short lived, possibly lasting only a few weeks before her army was routed. Of far more significance, particularly in Wales, was the leadership of Caradoc, who had been welcomed by the Silures tribe. There is clear evidence that the Silures were the biggest problem in Britain for the Romans. Tacitus tells us they were swayed neither by harshness nor kindness from the path of warfare against the invaders, and there is evidence that they defeated a whole legion in one battle. Caradoc was captured after leading them for about eight years but even then the Silures fought on. Indeed, they hindered the Romans for another twenty years before the Romans appear to have pacified them by building them the town of Caerwent to run as a civitas. It is becoming apparent that their retreats, at least in Gwent, included the wooded slopes above Pontypool and Garndiffaith, where burial mounds and impressive large defensive walls, unmortared in the Roman way, and at times six feet high and three feet wide, are evident. It is perhaps the only evidence left in Britain of the fight that the native Britons put up against Rome.
Thank you for your kind words, and for the added information!
@@orthodoxexchange Croeso. And by the way, I think your style of delivery is truly wonderful.
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Don't forget the speech that he made to the Roman Senate recorded by Tacitus, after Caradoc had been taken captive to Rome in chains. The Senate were so impressed by Caradoc's speech that the Emperor Claudius pardoned him under the provision that he and his family had to stay hostage in Rome. Gladys the daughter of Caradoc was adopted by the emperor and renamed Claudia, she eventually married Rufus Pudens and the family famously became known as the House of Pudens in the history of early Christianity in Rome. Their home became a byword for the protection of the early Christian church in Rome. Unfortunately the House of Pudens was too suffer martyrdom for their service to Christianity. It is an historical fact that the House of Pudens was known to the apostle Paul through his epistle to Timothy, and also to the historian Tacitus, and not forgetting the poet Martial through his epigrams on the family. It is recorded also that the first historical Bishop of Rome was a son of Caradoc by the name of Linus, who was reputed too have been ordained by a family friend by the name of Saint Paul.
@@Lawrence278 All totally correct Lawrence. I have actually visited the site of the home the Romans gave to Caradoc’s family. It was known then as the Palladium Britannicum, the British Palace, because it housed a king in Caradoc. A church now stands on the site and it is the HQ of the Filipino Church in Rome. It is a nice church with some of the oldest and loveliest mosaics in the city. Not too many people know that St Peter was NOT the first Pope but Linus was. The Catholics “promoted” Peter to be seen as the first pope because he was a disciple of Jesus. In any event, the first few popes were known as the Bishop of Rome, and you are right in saying that Linus was first. Some historians doubt that Peter ever visited Rome before he arrived for execution.