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Updated: July 1, 2025
In this walk Marcellus had ample opportunity to witness the presence of that fraternal love to which Honorius alluded. He encountered men, women, and children of every rank and of every age.
Arcadius, the emperor of the East, finding his end approaching, and anxious to secure a protector for his son Theodosius, a boy of tender age, instead of committing him to the charge of his uncle Honorius, or selecting a guardian for him from among his own subjects, by a formal testamentary act, we are told, placed his child under the protection of the Persian monarch.
The joy of the African triumph was happily connected with the nuptials of the emperor Honorius, and of his cousin Maria, the daughter of Stilicho: and this equal and honorable alliance seemed to invest the powerful minister with the authority of a parent over his submissive pupil.
How was Alaric induced to raise the siege of Rome? Why did Alaric besiege Rome a second time? Whom did the Goths make emperor? What favourable opportunity of making peace did Honorius lose? By what means did the Goths become masters of Rome? Where did Alaric die? What events marked the reign of Adolphus? What remarkable persons died nearly at the same time? What was the fate of the usurper John?
Hope came to him, timidly, tremblingly, yet still it was hope, and his soul grew stronger at her presence. At, last, when Honorius ended, his feelings burst forth. It was the prayer of the publican: "God be merciful unto me a sinner!" Hours passed on. But who can fittingly describe the progress of a soul on its way to its God?
Alaric had already found the way to Italy when he accompanied Theodosius in his campaign against the usurper Maximus in 394. In 400 he descended into Italy, not with an army only, but with the migration of his entire people. He defeated the Romans under the walls of Aquileia, and in 401 besieged Honorius in Milan. But the oracle on this occasion had "paltered" with him in a double sense.
The subjects of Honorius, and those of Francis I., were animated by a very different spirit; and in less than two years, the divided troops of the savages of the Baltic, whose numbers, were they fairly stated, would appear contemptible, advanced, without a combat, to the foot of the Pyrenean Mountains.
When Adolphus, who never abated his fondness for his Roman bride, was assassinated at Barcelona, she was treated like a slave by his assassins, and driven twelve miles on foot before the horse of his murderer. Ransomed at length for six hundred thousand measures of wheat by her brother Honorius, who handed her over struggling to Constantius, one of his generals.
The public buildings were placarded with the news of Heraclian's victory; and groups of loungers expressed, loudly enough, their utter indifference as to who might rule at Rome or even at Byzantium. Let Heraclian or Honorius be emperor, the capitals must be fed; and while the Alexandrian wheat-trade was uninjured, what matter who received the tribute?
He pointed to, a slab bearing the following inscription: MARCELLA AND FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MARTYRS OF CHRIST. "Here is a longer one," said Marcellus, "and its words may well find an echo in the hearts of all of us." "This," said Honorius, "is the resting place of a well loved brother, whose memory is still cherished in all the Churches.
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