Thursday, December 28, 2023

 Greetings all,


On this day we celebrate the crowning of Majorian as Emperor of the West on  December 28th in 457 AD:


Majorian was recognized as Emperor of the West by Constantinople, and he and Emperor Leo I were jointly made consuls at this time.  Majorian was a successful commander who retook most of the Province of Gaul for Rome, and the historian Gibbon Majorian "presents the welcome discovery of a great and heroic character, such as sometimes arise, in a degenerate age, to vindicate the honour of the human species".

-Marcus Cassius Julianus
 
 

 

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