Saint Aristoboulos

Feasts and Saints (English)
March 15

[EpicEons]

He was definitely martyred in Britain. All deleted from the British historical records. St Paul also came to Britain along with Joseph of Arimathea and St Simon the zealot.

[howardjdownes]

~PART TWO ~

I began this with no intent to write an essay upon Chtistological nor Theologically "doctrinal" matters of "Creed".
I was merely attempting to describe the importance of Britain to the Roman Empire.
Where Julius Caesar failed, it was finally, under the reign of Claudius that the Britons were defeated. (Exactly "how" is another entire issue involving what could be called "treasonous, self-serving and collaborative élites", certain regions actively cooperating with "the enemy" whose oligarchs, hierarchs and aristocracy agreed - as so often the case throughout history - to "take the 'emperor's' shilling" and agree to act as "vassal kingdoms" under the hegemony of Rome whose patronage would be recognised not dissimilar to 'Pétain and Vichy France' and 'Quisling in Norway' as recently as WW2.
In my first comment, I attempted to narrate the pre-history and even the most-recently archaeologically-discovered evidence proving a highly-advanced megalithic civilisation throughout the British Isles, at a period in time when the majority of inhabitants lived on the coast and we were 'joined' and 'connected' by the seas - NOT 'separated'. (I first had this 'shift in mindset' or realisation over 30 years ago, and once one rethinks everything one's previously learned and re-examined the consensually-agreed narrative - which had never made sense to my understanding or knowing intuitively - the "6, 000 year-old history of nomadic tribesmen (pastoralist herdsmen in politically-correct modern-day parlance) crossing the Central Asian Steppe with them dividing, half eastwards along the Indus, the other westwards along the Oxus. Voilà ! Instantly you have the "east-west paradigm", the so-called "Proto Indo-Aryan civilisations" of the ancestral peoples that became the Persians and Greeks (Oxus River Basin) and Sino-Hindu (Indus River Basin) with their common single Mythologem and traditional oral histories, at the "micro" level the universally-accepted and understood notion of Duality which runs-through all philosophical traditions until the Renaissance, Déscartes or "the Cartesian Metamodel", Rousseau, Heidegger, Voltaire - "Beyond Good and Evil" or "I, Thou", the post-modernists, relativity/subjectivity and the rejection of "absolutes" through the vital "Triune" or "Triad-out-of-Dyad" (as I call it), the Trinitarian, to Space-Time Continuum, Beyond Fifth Dimension, Nine Universes to Multiplicity of Multiverses on a Never-Ending through that looking-glass and the realisation that nothing makes any sense when dissected, divided into the smallest sub-atomic, scalar wave-particulate plasma... to single universal mythopoetic mythologem... my ancestors crofting along the Kintyre Coastline having generations earlier arrived with all other Scots from Ireland to where (namely Ennis in County Clare) they would be forced to resettle. It is tragic that so many - possibly a majority - did not remain to fight for their rights and struggle to win their liberties and freedom here but emigrated to other continents where like those survivors who remain victims, then as "Those Abused" become "Those Abusers with ensuing theft and looting, rape and molestation, genocidal mass murder and the loss of cardinal moral compass. Forced-off their land, made to live in back-to-backs and work 16 (sixteen) hour shifts in the "dark, satanic mills".. anyone aware of Northern England's social history and the birth of the last "Industrial Revolution" will understand all I mean... and more.
This bitter reference to William Blake's "Jerusalem", "Gin Alley" and "the Gutter", Gibbons' "Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire" does make sense if I conclude what has descended into "a rant" by narrating he whom decreed that the Roman Empire "tolerate Christianity" being baptised only on his deathbed was himself "a born and bred Brit".
His father, Constantius, was Governor of Britain and Gaul with his capital at York. His mother, Helena (Eleanour), is arguably the most important Christian to have ever lived, as important a central figure and as "Saul of Tarsus/Saint Paul", the counter-disinformation spook who somehow managed to turn "The Way" completely on its head and fashioning a faith Yeshuwah/Jesus would be unable to recognise.
The Emperor Constantine was declared "Leader of the Civilised World" at York, England, the capital and headquarters of the Province of Britain and Gaul.
Britain was deemed so important that within a century, it received 2 (two) official "Imperial Royal Visits", first by Claudius whose armies conquered Britain, infamously defeating the last independent enclave and hold-out who basically refused the offer of lots of money and instead decided to lead her community and people into the equivalent of cultic group-suicide not unlike David Koresh at Waco. There was only ever going to be one result.

[howardjdownes]

~PART ONE~

This is not 'unlikely' whatsoever. The only institutions Yeshuwah/Christ initiated were those of "The Disciples" ( "The Twelve" men), "The Women" ("The Seven" females), that of "The Diaconate" - "Deacons" (according to early Christian literature, the male "Deacons" ministered to and baptised the menfolk whilst female "Deacons" - note, NOT "Deaconess" - ministered, baptised and were pastors to the womenfolk and in addition we have "The Seventy" - seventy male "Apostles" sent out to evangelise the known world.
It saddens me that so many are theologically illiterate concerning the early Church.
A large number - some twenty or so - each individually named - comprised a platoon of Roman Centurions originating in 'Coptic Egypt' or the large body of Christians still extant today under the leadership or seniormost cleric known as "The Patriarch of Alexandria" and officially styled "Pope of All Africa", even using such title prior to the Bishop of Rome in Alexandria or what according to Church Kerygma is "The Great See of Saint Mark".
Britain was certainly 'no backwater' at the fringe of the Roman Empire, rather vital ecenomically and strategically. Julius Caesar tried but failed on several and in particular two highly-trained Roman militaries to conquer Britain, which was THE source for 'woad' from which the "imperial blue" or "royal and ecclesiastical purple" dye is extracted (the single source other than the ground-up Lapis lazuli obtained from the Bactrian Empire which Alexander of Macedon or Alexander the Great was unable to conquer - present-day Afghanistan and the central Asian Steppe comprising the celebrated cities of Samarkand and Tashkent).
In addition, Great Britain (remember "Britain", known in French as 'Bretagne' but translated into English as 'Brittany' despite being the exact same word, was viewed as a great prize with the only-known Tin Mines of Cornwall (the Celtic Kingdom of Kernow) which had vital trade with Rome's predecessor, the Hellenistic or Greek Empire. In addition to the Cornish Tin Mines, Eastern English Woad, Welsh Gold was and remains highly-prized for its purity and colour.
Archaeological excavations show how advanced pre-Roman Britons were. The Orkneys, a group of North Sea islands northeast of the Scottish Highlands which together with Shetland didn't come under the Scottish Throne until the 1400s or 13th century, with its capital's cathedral dedicated to Saint Magnus Magnusson demonstrably showing its much more important links to "the Danes" and what, at its height under "King Canute / King Knut" who reigned over :
The Isle of Man (midpoint in the Irish Sea)
The Hebrides / 'Western Isles' including :
Mull, Harris, Lewis, Arran, Egg, the westernmost Scottish peninsula separated from the mainland and thought to have been an island - the Mull of Kintyre - at whose tip is located Campbeltown (from whom I am directly descended and historically having been forced to flee by the Anglo-Scots allied "Bruces" who 'ruled vicariously' from the time of the Plantagenets and late 13th century until late 16th/early 17th century of "the Stuart Dynasty" who from 1601 became "the kings of England" - with ensuing 'regicide' when King Charles Stuart was publicly executed in 1652, his younger brother forced into Exile in France following the bloodless ersatz "Glorious Revolution of 1668" (Oliver Cromwell having established the world's first Republic referred to as "The Commonwealth" with Parliament offering Cromwell 'The Crown' in late 1650s, which he declined. Vital information often absent from the record. The "Duke of Marlborough", illegitimate son of Charles I who landed in Devon and, gathering many along the way, marched upon London since he saw himself as rightful heir as opposed to his uncle, James II (the Second's) claim. Killed just short of the City, it was then James II's daughter, Mary, whose deliberate and tactical marriage to the Duke of Orange, a Dutch priest whose armies landed in northernmost Ireland and with his French Mercenaries, Irish Army accrued support of the Scottish Armies, marching upon London, William of Orange famously landed unopposed at Greenwich, wed Mary Stuart with whom a agreement was reached whereupon these isles and kingdoms have witnessed the singlemost so-called "Dual Regency" where Mary became Queen Regent and William styled and crowned King Regent, after Queen Mary's death reigning alone as King William III under whom a version of "The Declaration of Arbroath" was fashioned into "The Bill of Rights" which became "Act of Rights" and IS the never-mentioned 'Written Constitution of Great Britain" stored to this day in the House of Lords' Library.
This Act became "the blueprint" for "the American Constitution" and comparatively examined, are almost 'word-for-word' identical.
One of 'the greatest deceptions' ever perpetrated upon the English (and British) citizenry is that we "have NO Written Constitution" which is an outright lie whilst the British Constitution is made-up of "Magna Carta" (1215) and "Act of Rights" (1668) never repealed and the Law - based upon "Common Law" or "Dane Law" - unique in Europe where all else is based upon "Napoleonic Law".
It enshrines the concept of "Innocent Until Proven Guilty" instead of the Napoleonic and EU's "Guilty Until Proven Innocent" - wholly different and alien.
Anyway - William and Mary died childless and were succeeded by Mary's younger sister, Anne who became "Good Queen Anne" (the ONLY "Good" we've had since the pre-Norman "Great" King Arthur, Saint Edward "The Confessor",
"Good King Cole" whose historical capital, Colchester, I reside but twenty miles from.
It was the Church in Alexandria or "Great See of Saint Mark" whose bishop is styled "Patriarch of Alexandria" and "Pope of All Africa" whose present-day incumbent "His Graciousness Pope Tawadros" (Hellenised, becoming "Theodore/Theodorus") with "Pope" in the Orthodox East importantly NEVER used as "Father" but rather for "Papa" insert "Papouli" meaning "little father" and in the Antiochian Orthodox Church of which I am a chrismated member and uses Arabic in its literature, known as "Aboona" meaning the same - NOT "Abu" translated as "father", its Doctrine refutes and anathematises "Marianism" - rejecting such notions as:
"the Immaculate Conception" - that Mary was herselfborn of a virgin, St Anne;
that Mary, Mother of Yeshuwah/Jesus was "born free of sin";
that upon her death "bodily ascended into heaven' - "The Ascension". Instead, within Orthodoxy, her death is styled "The Dormition", transliterated "the Falling Asleep" - "passing away" with no accompanying angelic host, trumpets or miracles;
Rejects titles such as "Queen of Heaven" and, surprisingly to many, "Mother of God".
Yes - in Council at Ephesus compromised on the Koine Greek "Theotokos" (Θεοτοκος) which translated becomes "God-Bearer" or "Bearer of God" whilst importantly yet subtlety rejects "Mother of God" (and, personally, the great dispute of the age was between the Patriarchs of Alexandria and Antioch, Nestor and Clement, and whether to accept "Χριστοκος/Christokos" or "Θεοτοκος'/Theotokos", rather opting for "the Beater of Christ/Christ-Bearer" over "the Bearer of God-Made-Man/God-Bearer" with the former appeasing to pre-Christian paganism whose practises were gradually subsumed under "the Christian Umbrella" (Winter Solstice/Yuletide/Saturnalia), "Pascha/Passover/the Passion of Christ" conflated with fertility-goddess "Oestra/Eastra/Esther" (whose prefix is used for 'Oestrogen the dominant female hormone). Beyond a doubt, both poorly-disguised pre-Christian festivities.
In Orthodoxy, there is no "Christmas" but rather "the Nativity of Christ" whilst the "Last Supper" becomes "Mystical Supper", "Great" instead of "Good" Friday, "Easter Sunday" is the Christian "Pascha" or "Passion" stands, with "The Resurrection" in actuality "Aναστασις/Anastasis" where the Greek "stasis" meaning "lack of movement/stillness/at complete rest" but certainly not in any way comparable to "νεκροσις/necrosis" - La Mort - Death" thus "ana - stasis" = "NOT MOTIONLESS". A double negative quite difficult to translate, but as a linguist and polyglot in my opinion, Greek is THE MOST precise, clinically-accurate, scientifically-exact language I've ever come across and for which I hold in utmost respect.

[howardjdownes]

"Non-entity" = nonsense. Aristobulos was the son of Herod's daughter Salome who according to Tradition married seniormost member of the Sanhedrin, St Joseph of Arimethea.
Describing Britain, of such importance it received two Imperial Visits, first by Tiberian Emperor, Claudius and then by Flavian Emperor, Adrian/Hadrian.
Highly inaccurate, I am as dismissive of this brief and poor report as it seemingly is of the Proto-Martyr, Evangelist and Apostle to the Britons when St Paul was still Saul of Tarsus.
I have concluded the Roman oligarchs infiltrated "The Way of Yeshuwah" very early on, writing-out its most significant figures and early proselytes or converts, including Saints Pilate and Procla, Joseph of Arimethea, Simon the Cyrene, Dorotheus of Tyre, Polycarp of Smyrna, Clement of Rome, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Philo, St Ignatius of Antioch, St James Brother of the Lord and Head of the early Church, Jesus's other brothers whose names we've even forgotten invthe subsequent enforced amnesia in a church without priests, whose overseers (bishops) men and women of renown over sixty with special regard for "The Women" including Mary, Mother of Christ Yeshuwah, as well as male & female Deacons such as Philip, Stephen, Timothy, Barnabas, Titus, Mark and the hundreds more, and had no "priesthood" mimicking the dress and habits of the Cohenim and Levites. No. The absolute authoritarian dictatorship thzt was the militaristic state fuelled by war, death and bloodshed in its expansionist foreign policy until, over-reaching, its home and base collapsed to miral decay from inside and attack from without, with the cosmic law of entropy then taking effect as happened in the Greek Emires and States before, in Ptolemaic Egypt, Pharoanic Egypt, in Syro-Phoenecian Carthage, Assyria, Babylonia, Sumeria, Atlantis, and all the other myriad civilisations stretching back over 200, 000 years. Unlearn and start 'The Journey to Knowing'.