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Rh 202. "This year Pope Victor decreed that the feast of Easter should be held on the Sunday, even as his predecessor Eleutherus had determined."

254. "Pope Cornelius removed the bodies of the Apostles by night from the catacombs, and buried that of Paul in the Via Ostensis where he had been beheaded, and that of Peter near the place where he had been crucified."

283. This year St. Alban suffered martyrdom.

311. "St. Silvester, the 23d Pope: in his time, the Council of Nice was held; also the first Council of Arles, at which Avitianus, Archbishop of Rouen, was present."

343. This year St. Nicholas died.

379. This year Gratian succeeded to the Empire.

"At this time a Council of 150 Fathers was held at Constantinople under Damasus, against Macedonius and Eunomius."

381. This year the Emperor Maximus assumed the government: he was born in Britain, and thence