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SHOPPER'S DELIGHT

EVENTS

Roman Empire

--- Valerian I recovers Antioch from Shapur .

---The Goths build a fleet on the Black Sea .

---The Goths separate into the Ostrogoths and the Visigoths .

--- Aurelian defeats the Goths along the lower Danube, bringing many prisoners back to Rome.

Religion

---Valerian's persecution of Christians begins: his edict orders bishops and priests to sacrifice according to the pagan rituals, and prohibits Christians, under penalty of death, from meeting at the tombs of their deceased.

--- Pope Sixtus II succeeds Pope Stephen I

BIRTHS

Saint Gregory The Illuminator , founder and patron saint of the Armenian Church (approximate date)

DEATHS

Pope Stephen I