Showing posts with label incarnation. Show all posts
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Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Why

6.13.19
Greek Fortress Outside Wall of Jerusalem

Why
This?
为什么这样
Wèishéme zhèyàng
なぜこれ
Naze kore
ps74
Quid est

Why this
after the bliss 
of our tryst?

What happened to the congregation you bought long ago,
the tribe you redeemed for the inheritance of your ancestral tempo
and the secure foundation for the security of your escrow? 

No one has been found like Abraham.
He kept the law like a histogram.
He certified the covenant in his flesh.
He became the father of the nations crest.
When he was put to the test
he substituted something lesser as better for the best.

Turn your attention to the attack on our heritage.
Liberal power has made deceptive experiment the imperative.

Socialism has laid claim to the end of time
to use the threat of revolution to meet demands across borderlines.

They were like loggers laying siege to a grove of trees.
They rejected conservative reason for various causes as idolatries.

Populist rhetoric was used to deny unity. 
Factional speech declared special favor for importunity. 

Media expression blared that they cared when they did not.
Opposition was attacked and detracted as though they had been caught.

Foreign policy for aggression displaced accountability
for the national security of official improbability. 

How long will the adversary scoff at the utility of joy?
How long will they make aggression into the avoirdupois?

Why do you draw back your hand?
Why is your demand bidden in our land?

Some person was caught up into Paradise with Christ.
He heard things of joy beyond the ability to describe.

The royalty of his noble authority was honored by the public.
Oaths of loyalty were laid before his path by people who had felt they were loveless.

One ruler in the party of succession for the conservation of wealth
in the economics of stability for the commonweal
has been the rule of order for social and personal health
amidst the tales and travails of stealth. 

When liberals from the lower house have been placed over the higher
and the agreement has been forced upon the prior
administrative qualifier
as the fire of desire for the entire official attire
the basis for civil rights has been decayed in the quagmire.

It's like the sea was divided by the elements of strife.
The heads of dragons were shattered upon the waters for life.

The head of the Leviathan was crushed
that the people of the desert might be fed enough.
Raiders were not allowed to take their stuff.

Judean Wilderness

The dry earth was split by spit for spring and torrent.
The ever flowing river serves the converse as conditions warrant.

Yours is the day for work or play.
Yours also is the night to review the ways of the day.

You established the moon and sun.
Energy was made to run for fun.

The study of probability is a mental construct
that stems from the observation of variance in nature's conduct.

The boundaries of the earth have been fixed.
Summer, fall, winter and spring have conditions mixed
in the relative fix of the betwixt of each interdict. 

Summer bans cold. 
Winter abhors warmth as old.
Spring decreases darkness and cold for growth.
Fall is the end of growth as an oath for most.

Remember how those who listened with enmity 
scoffed at the Incarnation of Memory. 

Foolish people despised your Name
to defame your legacy as lame. 

Do not sacrifice the dove to wild beasts.
Make sure you have enough for what your child needs.

Look upon your covenant embodied
as the ground for your governance copied.

Let legitimate complaint be heard.
Help the poor find economy with your word.

Rise to shine to maintain your cause.
Let those who revile authority find respect for law.

Show that error caused by mass deception 
results in tumult for the engine of reception.

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Dyeus- shine or sky
Zeus- Light
Deus- God

74 Ut quid, Deus?
Why, God?

1 O God, why have you utterly cast us off?
why is your wrath so hot against the sheep of your pasture?
2 Remember your congregation that you purchased long ago,
the tribe you redeemed to be your inheritance,
and Mount Zion where you dwell.
3 Turn your steps toward the endless ruins;
the enemy has laid waste everything in your sanctuary.
4 Your adversaries roared in your holy place;
they set up their banners as tokens of victory.
5 They were like men coming up with axes to a grove of trees;
they broke down all your carved work with hatchets
and hammers.
6 They set fire to your holy place;
they defiled the dwelling-place of your Name
and razed it to the ground.
7 They said to themselves, "Let us destroy them altogether."
They burned down all the meeting-places of God in the land.
8 There are no signs for us to see;
there is no prophet left;
there is not one among us who knows how long.
9 How long, O God, will the adversary scoff?
will the enemy blaspheme your Name for ever?
10 Why do you draw back your hand?
why is your right hand hidden in your bosom?
11 Yet God is my King from ancient times,
victorious in the midst of the earth.
12 You divided the sea by your might
and shattered the heads of the dragons upon the waters;
13 You crushed the heads of Leviathan
and gave him to the people of the desert for food.
14 You split open spring and torrent;
you dried up ever-flowing rivers.
15 Yours is the day, yours also the night;
you established the moon and the sun.
16 You fixed all the boundaries of the earth;
you made both summer and winter.
17 Remember, O Lord, how the enemy scoffed,
how a foolish people despised your Name.
18 Do not hand over the life of your dove to wild beasts;
never forget the lives of your poor.
19 Look upon your covenant;
the dark places of the earth are haunts of violence.
20 Let not the oppressed turn away ashamed;
let the poor and needy praise your Name.
21 Arise, O God, maintain your cause;
remember how fools revile you all day long.
22 Forget not the clamor of your adversaries,
the unending tumult of those who rise up against you.

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Sirach 44:19-20

Abraham was the father of a multitude of nations.
No one has been found like him in glory.
He kept the law of the Most High
when he entered into a covenant with him.
He certified the covenant in his flesh.
When he was tested he proved faithful.

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No one has been found like Abraham.
He kept the law like a histogram.
He certified the covenant in his flesh.
He became the father of nations crest.
When he was put to the test
he substituted something better as best.

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2 Corinthians 12:2-4

I know a person in Christ who 14 years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or outside the body I do not know. God knows. I know that such a person was caught into Paradise and heard things that are not to be told. No mortal is permitted to repeat.

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Some person was caught up into Paradise with Christ.
He heard things of joy beyond the ability to describe.

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Luke 19:39

Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, 'Teacher, order your disciples to stop.' He answered, 'I tell you, if these were silent, the stones would shout out.'

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The royalty of his noble authority was honored by the public.
Cloaks were spread before his path by people who had felt they were loveless.

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Probability

Bruno de Finetti
b. 6.13.1906  Innsbruck, Austria
d. 7.20.1985  Rome, Italy

Bruno de Finetti  was an Italian probabilist statistician and actuary. He was  noted for the "operational subjective" conception of probability.

The classic exposition of his distinctive theory is the 1937 "Prediction: Logical Laws, Subjective Sources." (La prévision: ses lois logiques, ses sources subjectives) The paper discussed probability founded on the coherence of betting odds and the consequences of exchangeability.

Exchangeability is equivalent to the concept of statistical control. This form of control has application in the manufacturing process. It ensures quality in efficient production to make more products conform to specification with less waste.

De Finetti was born in Innsbruck, Austria.

Innsbruck, Austria


Map

The town passed into the hands of the Counts of Tyrol in 1248. The city's arms show a bird's-eye view of the Inn bridge. The design has been used since 1267.

The route over the Brenner Pass was a major transport and communications link between the north and the south of Europe. It was the easiest route across the Alps. It was part of the Via Imperii, a medieval imperial road under special protection of the king. The revenues generated by serving as a transit station on this route enabled the city to flourish.

Tyrol was ceded to Bavaria, ally of France, during the Napoleonic Wars. Andreas Hofer led a Tyrolean peasant army to victory in the Battles of Bergisel against the combined Bavarian and French forces. He made Innsbruck the center of his administration.

The combined army later overran the Tyrolean militia army. Innsbruck was part of Bavaria until 1814. Austrian rule was restored after the Vienna Congress (1814-1815). The town was part of the Austrian monarchy until 1918. It was one of the 4 autonomous towns in Tyrol.

The location in the Alps has made it a destination for winter sports. Innsbruck is also known for its Imperial and modern architecture.

Bruno de Finetti

De Finetti was born on June 13, 1906 when Innsbruck was part of Austria-Hungary. His Italian parents were Austrian citizens. His father worked as a railway constructor. He was an engineer as was his father before him.

The states of the Italian peninsula and Sicily had united as a kingdom in 1861. Victor Emmanuel II was the king. The Italian Nationalist movement held the goal of joining the modern industrialized powers.

Extensive industrialization and the building of a modern infrastructure was well underway by the 1890's. Alpine railway lines connected Italy to the French, German and Austrian rail systems. Two south-going coastal lines were also completed. Most of the larger industrial businesses were founded with considerable investment from Germany, Britain, France and others.

The de Finetti family presence in Innsbruck was a result of the expansion of the railway system.

It was no surprise when in 1923 Bruno de Finetti enrolled at Milan Polytechnic (Politecnico di Milano). He discovered his true passion for mathematics there.

He was inspired by a paper of the biologist Carlo Foà during his third year. He started research work in the field of population genetics. This led him to the first of his almost three hundred writings (1926). it was the first example of a model with overlapping generations in population genetics. He was at least forty years ahead of its time.

He moved to the recently founded University of Milan. He graduated in Applied Mathematics with a dissertation on affine geometry in 1927. Affine geometry is the study of parallel lines. He was supervised by Giulio Vivanti, a mathematician who made some noteworthy contributions to complex analysis.

A position was already waiting for him in Rome as an actuary and statistician at the Italian Central Statistical Institute, founded and directed by Corrado Gini. He remained there until 1931.  He transferred to the Trieste insurance company Assicurazioni Generali from 1931.

He was one of the first mathematicians to become aware of the possibilities offered by computing machinery due to the mechanization of some actuarial services. He supplemented his work in the following years with several academic appointments, both in Trieste and Padua.

He won a competition for Chair of Financial Mathematics and Statistics in 1936, but was not nominated due to a fascist law barring access to unmarried candidates.

He concentrated on his academic activity starting from 1946. He became a full professor at the University of Trieste in 1947. He was appointed as ordinary professor at the university only in 1950. He moved to "La Sapienza" University of Rome in 1954 where he remained until the end of his career.

De Finetti was especially fond of the aphorism: Probability does not exist. The study of probability is an expression of the observer's view of the world. It is a mental construct as such. It has no existence of its own.

Statistical inference is no longer an empirical process that produced opinions from data as a consequence of the subjective approach. It becomes a logical-psychological process selecting opinions compatible with data among the available ones.

His contributions to probability and statistics do not reduce to his subjective approach. They include important results on finitely additive measures, processes with independent increments, sequences of exchangeable variables and associative means.

De Finetti emphasized a predictive inference approach to statistics. He proposed a thought experiment along the following lines for coherence in a philosophical gambling strategy.

You must set the price of a promise to pay $1 if there was life on Mars 1 billion years ago and $0 if there was not. The answer will be revealed tomorrow.

You know that your opponent will be able to choose either to buy such a promise from you at the price you have set or require you to buy such a promise from your opponent at the same price.
You set the odds in other words, but your opponent decides which side of the bet will be yours.

The price you set is the "operational subjective probability" that you assign to the proposition on which you place your bet. This price has to obey the probability axioms if you are not to face certain loss as you would if you set a price above $1 (or a negative price).

De Finetti could justify additivity by considering bets on more than one event. Prices or equivalent odds that do not expose you to certain loss through a Dutch book are called coherent.

A Dutch book or lock is a set of odds and bets in gambling which guarantees a profit regardless of the outcome of the gamble. It is associated with probabilities implied by the odds not being coherent.
The term usually refers to a sequence of trades that would leave one party strictly worse off and another strictly better off in economics.

His interest in economics was innate and led him during his first year at Milan Polytechnic to attend the lectures given there by Ulisse Gobbi. These confirmed him in his radical position for a collective Pareto optimum with a "fairness" criteria.

Italy's politics favored radical socialism due to a regionally fragmented right after unification. The kingdom attempted to join the Great Powers in acquiring colonies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The cost of colonization made the task difficult. It added to the huge debt that modernization had incurred.

Italy remained neutral at the beginning of World War I. The kingdom declared war on the Austro-Hungarian Empire in exchange for several territories. The Fascist regime grew after the end of WWI in opposition to the threat of socialist revolution by labor.

The political situation had been reduced to the competition between the different forms of socialism. This had a parallel development with the case in Spain in their civil war. The expansion of the condition for revolutionary demand was largely the result of labor union agreement with the economic theory of Engels and Marx. 

De Finetti was a Fascist during his youth, then moved to Christian socialism and finally adhered to the Radical Party. His longing for social justice caused him  to run as a candidate in several elections in the 1970's. He was arrested for his antimilitarist position.

He is also noted for de Finetti's theorem on exchangeable sequences of random variables. He was not the first to study exchangeability but he brought the subject to greater visibility. He started publishing on the topic in the late 1920's but the 1937 article is his most famous treatment.

He introduced the concept of infinitely divisible probability distributions in 1929.

He also introduced de Finetti diagrams for graphing genotype frequencies.

Bruno de Finetti was a honorary fellow of the Royal Statistical Society as well as a member of the International Statistical Institute and a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics at the time of his death. He died in Rome on July 20, 1985.

Extensions of de Finetti's representation theorem have been found to be useful in quantum information in topics like quantum key distribution and entanglement detection in the 21st century.

Bruno de Finetti
S. 布鲁诺·代·芬蒂
T. 布魯諾·代·芬蒂

布 Bu       to announce              布  fu        cloth                     Bu  ぶ      ブ              Beu   브   the
鲁  lu        rude                           魯 ro         foolish                 ru  る-     ル-              lu      루   sack   
诺  nuo    promise                      諾 daku   consent                  no  の      ノ                no     노   furnace
代  dai      generation                 代 dai       substitute             de  で      デ                 deu   드   de       
芬  Fen     perfume                     芬 fun      perfume               Fu   ふぃ  フィ            Pi      피    blood
蒂  di        stem                          蒂  tei       stem of plant        net  ねっ ネッ             ne     네     yeah 
                                                                                                ti     てぃ   ティ           ti       티     tea     

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The study of probability is a mental construct
that stems from the observation of variance in nature's conduct.

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wiki Bruno de Finetti
St. Andrews History De Finetti
Digital Papers
Medical Papers

Sunday, May 26, 2019

Conserve

6.2.19

Morena Baccarin 

Conserve
Goodness
保持良好
Bǎochí liánghǎo
善を守る 
Zen o mamoru
ps97
bonitas universalem
conservationem generabilium

Let the earth rejoice in conservative reform.
Conservation protects productive value as the norm.

Clouds and darkness surround the power of the storm.
Light and energy still shine above the darkest forms.

Celestial fire shines, hides or crackles at different times.
Illumination is the source for sight in the respective climes.

Lightning lights the world with jolts.
The earth sees forms with the electrical bolts.

Mountains melt from sight in a downpour that approaches omnipresence.
Wetness in  the atmospheric reality is allowed near the essence of real presence.

The heavens declare the righteousness of divine glory.
People see the God of nature's story.

The worship of false belief is detrimental to faith.
Reason is required to keep reality straight.

The capital and the cities of faith rejoice
when justice in judgment is given voice.

The power of love shines above the earth.
The God who created reality helps us to see mental and material worth.

Divine design loves those who value goodness
for the correction of criminal behavior to redeem human fullness.

Joyful gladness springs for the true hearted.
The light of love shines for those who are not heartless.

The Most High God was not acceptable to polytheistic belief.
It declared allegiance to authority higher than the imperial chief. 

Christ had been since before the beginning and will be beyond the end of time.
He was the incarnation of the divine Son in man until his body was crucified.
He rose again on the third day until he ascended to the Empyrean to reside.  

Jesus made the Father's name known to the faithful.
He showed love that those who believed would feel grateful.

Rejoice in the faith that will achieve rightness.
Give thanks to the Lord who heals blindness.

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97 Dominus regnavit
Dominance is king

1 The Lord is King;
let the earth rejoice;
let the multitude of the isles be glad.
2 Clouds and darkness are round about him,
righteousness and justice are the foundations of his throne.
3 A fire goes before him
and burns up his enemies on every side.
4 His lightnings light up the world;
the earth sees it and is afraid.
5 The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the Lord,
at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
6 The heavens declare his righteousness,
and all the peoples see his glory.
7 Confounded be all who worship carved images
and delight in false gods!
Bow down before him, all you gods.
8 Zion hears and is glad, and the cities of Judah rejoice,
because of your judgments, O Lord.
9 For you are the Lord,
most high over all the earth;
you are exalted far above all gods.
10 The Lord loves those who hate evil;
he preserves the lives of his saints
and delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
11 Light has sprung up for the righteous,
and joyful gladness for those who are truehearted.
12 Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous,
and give thanks to his holy Name.

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Acts of the Apostles
Chapter 16

The sixteenth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles records the second missionary journey of Paul with Silas and Timothy. His first mission had been with Barnabas from 47-48 CE. This journey is dated in 49.

Lydia and her household had been converted while they were in Phillipi, a Roman colony in Macedonia. A slave girl who made money for her owners with fortune telling had been yelling that Paul and his companions were slaves proclaiming the salvation of the Most High God. Paul commanded her to stop in the name of Jesus Christ.

Acts 16:19-21

When the owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the market-place before the authorities. When they had brought them before the magistrates, they said, 'These men are disturbing our city. They are Jews and are advocating customs that are not lawful for us as Romans to adopt or observe.'

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Claudius was emperor when Paul and his entourage went to Phillipi.

Claudius was born on 1 August 10 BCE at Lugdunum (modern Lyon, France). He had two older siblings, Germanicus and Livilla. His mother, Antonia, may have had two other children who died young.

His maternal grandparents were Mark Antony and Octavia Minor, Augustus' sister. This made him the great-great grandnephew of Gaius Julius Caesar. His paternal grandparents were Livia, Augustus' third wife, and Tiberius Claudius Nero.

He was named princeps by the Praetorian guard, Gratus, when his nephew, the emperor Caligula, was assassinated. He ruled from 41-54.

He emphasized his his place within the Julio-Claudian family. He adopted the name "Caesar" as a cognomen. The name still carried great weight with the populace. He dropped the name "Nero."

While Claudius had never been formally adopted either by Augustus or his successors, he was the grandson of Augustus' sister Octavia. He felt that he had the right of family. He also adopted the name "Augustus" as the two previous emperors had done at their accessions. He kept the honorific "Germanicus" to display the connection with his heroic brother.

Since Claudius was the first Emperor proclaimed on the initiative of the Praetorian Guard instead of the Senate, his repute suffered at the hands of commentators such as Seneca. He was the first Emperor who resorted to monetary recognition as a means to secure army loyalty. He rewarded the soldiers of the Praetorian Guard that had elevated him with 15,000 sesterces.

He dispatched a force of 40,000 troops and several war elephants across the English Channel in 43. The Romans had soon conquered a stronghold at modern day Colchester. They eventually succeeded in capturing the Catuvellauni tribal leader Caratacus.

Claudius conducted a census in 48 that found 5,984,072 Roman citizens. Adult males with Roman citizenship were counted. Women, children, slaves and free adult males without Roman citizenship were not counted. This was an increase of around a million since the census conducted at Augustus' death.

He had helped increase this number through the foundation of Roman colonies that were granted blanket citizenship. These colonies were often made out of existing communities, especially those with elites who could rally the populace to the Roman cause. Several colonies were placed in new provinces or on the border of the Empire to secure Roman holdings as quickly as possible.

Macedonia had been fully annexed by the Romans in 148 BCE. It was not one of the new colonies established by Claudius.

The people of Rome were tolerant of most religious expressions. That tolerance was largely limited to religions that were polytheistic. The Roman authorities didn't care who you worshiped as long as you included the emperor and didn't create problems with other religious systems.

Christians and Jews were monotheistic. They refused to worship the emperor or acknowledge him as any kind of deity.

Claudius banished all Jews from the city of Rome in 49. This was the year that the Roman owners of the fortune teller announced that Paul and company were slaves of the Most High God in the Roman colony of Phillipi was in itself a public declaration that the belief was not viewed as acceptable to Roman custom.

Early Church in Rome
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The Most High God was not acceptable to polytheistic belief.
It declared allegiance to authority higher than the imperial chief.

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Rev. 22:12-13

'I am coming soon. My reward is with me to repay according to everyone's work. I am the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.'

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He had been since before the beginning and will be beyond the end of time.
He was the incarnation of the divine Son in man until his body was crucified.
He rose again on the third day until he ascended to the Empyrean to reside.

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John 17:25-26

Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you. These know that you have sent me. I made your name known to them. I will make it known so the love which you have loved me may be in them and I in them.

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Jesus made the Father's name known to the faithful.
He showed love that those who believed would feel grateful.

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The Martyrs of Lyons
2 June 177

There were missionary centers at Lyons and Vienne in Gaul which had drawn many Christians from Asia and Greece. Persecution began in 177.

Christians were excluded from the public baths, the market place and from social events in public life at first. They were subject to attack when they appeared in public. There were Christian homes that were vandalized.

The government became involved at this point. They began to take Christians into custody for interrogation. Some slaves from Christian households were tortured to obtain confessions. They were induced to say that Christians practiced cannibalism and incest.

These charges were used to arouse the city against the Christians. Enmity was directed particularly against Pothinus, the aged bishop of Lyons; Sanctus, a deacon; Attalus; Maturus, a recent convert; and Blandina, a slave.

Pothinus was beaten then released to die of his wounds a few days later. Sanctus was tormented with red-hot irons. Blandina was tortured all day long. She would say nothing except, "I am a Christian, and nothing vile is done among us." The survivors were put to death in the public arena.

This story of martyrdom was set in a time of transition in Roman culture. Rome was being gradually guided to monotheism from polytheistic belief.

The Gauls had sacked Rome 387 years before the first year of Christ Jesus. Rome had become a republic. They had rejected the monarchy of the Estonians. They were not well organized for defense.

The Roman Republic began its takeover of Celtic Gaul in 121 when it conquered and annexed the southern reaches of the area. Julius Caesar significantly advanced the task by defeating the Celtic tribes in the Gallic Wars of 58-51.

Rome would not accept Christian monotheism until some time after Constantine established  Constantinople as the new Rome in 330.

Roman culture was still polytheistic in the 2d century. The republic had become an empire. Commodus was the Roman emperor with his father Marcus Aurelius from 177 to his father's death in 180.

Marcus Aurelius was the first emperor since Vespasian (r.69-79) to have a legitimate biological son.
He was the fifth in the line of the so-called Five Good Emperors. Each of these had adopted his successor. Adoption for succession had been started as a policy to select the emperor when Julius Caesar had adopted Octavian and added him to his will.

The family line of succession was difficult to maintain in the competitiveness between the Patricians.

It seems to have been the firm intention of Marcus Aurelius that Commodus should be his heir. Marcus granted Commodus the rank of Imperator on 27 November 176.

He became consul for the first time on 1 January 177. This made him the youngest consul in Roman history up to that time at the age of 15.

The title Augustus was given to his son in the middle of 177. This gave his son the same status as his own. They shared power formally.

It was at about this time that the Christians were reportedly martyred in Lyon. Lyon was a Roman city in Gaul. It was called Lugdunum. It was established by a former officer of Julius Caesar.

The colony was located at a strategic point. It was situated to launch the invasion of Germania for conquest.

It grew into a city with a large population and public constructs. It became the capital of Roman Gaul.

Aqueducts were likely built between 20 and 10. A large number of monuments were also built during the same period. The oldest theater in the three Gauls had about 4500 seats. It was opened in Lyon between 16 and 14 by decree of Augustus. This theater was later expanded under Hadrian to include around 10,700 seats.

The Amphitheatre of the Three Gauls was inaugurated in 19 CE. It was later enlarged circa 130–136. The altar of the federal sanctuary of the three Gauls was renovated during the same period.

The site of the present basilica was on the top of Fourvière hill. It was the heart of the Roman city during the apogee of its power. The forum, a temple, probably the Curia and the Basilica were located there.

A circus was built during the 2d century. The location is uncertain. This monument was mostly known through a mosaic which depicted it. Antoninus Pius created an Odeon of 3000 seats about 160. An odeon was a 'singing place' for musical competition.

The legate of Roman Gaul resided in Lugdunum and managed its three constituent provinces; Gallia Belgica, Gallia Aquitania and Gallia Lugdunensis.

The priesthood of the Imperial cult was the highest federal administrative office to which the Gallic Roman citizens could be elected. The election was held in Lyon in a temple of which we do not have any archaeological traces. The priests were elected by their cities. They held a worship throughout the year of which the highlight was a ceremony in August.

Delegates from all Gaul came to worship the emperor during this ceremony. The meetings were not regarded as sacramental. People were appointed from this meeting in order to form the Council of Three Gauls.

The Romans of Lyon supported the victims of the Great Fire of Rome under Nero in 64 by sending the sum of four million sesterces. They were victims of another fire the following year.  Nero sent the same amount to rebuild the city. This fire was known only by a text by Seneca. It has never been corroborated by archaeological evidence of a fire.

Vindex, the legate of Lugundum revolted against Nero with part of Gaul in 68. The people of Vienne besieged Lyon during the conflict, but had to leave the battlefield after Vindex was defeated.

Galba (r. 68-69) was the new emperor briefly. He punished the people of Lugdunum for supporting Nero. Lugdunum found favor with another emperor, Vitellius (r.69). He chastised the people of Vienne in the political upheavals during the Year of the Four Emperors.

Christianity was brought to Lugdunum by the Greeks from Asia Minor who had settled there in large numbers. The Christian community sent a letter to the Christians in Asia Minor in early June 177 CE.

The letter gave the names of 48 of their number who had suffered martyrdom in the Croix-Rousse amphitheatre. Pothinus, first Bishop of Lyon, was among them. The church was to recover quickly. Ireneus, the successor of Pothinus, became the first great Christian theologian.

The two Augusti celebrated a joint triumph on 23 December of the same year. Commodus was given tribunician power. This gave him authority equivalent to that of a tribune of the plebs or the military.

Lectionary Martyrs of Lyon
wiki Commodus
wiki Roman Gaul
wiki History of Lyon