Legiun Thebes: Perbedaan antara revisi

'''Legiun Thebes''' (juga dikenal sebagai '''Martir Agaunum''') merupakan sebuah penggambaran [[hagiografi]] [[Kekristenan|Kristen]] <ref>Attempts to demonstrate its historical possibility, such as Donald F. O'Reilly, "The Theban Legion of St. Maurice" ''Vigiliae Christianae'' '''32'''.3 (September 1978), pp. 195–207, reveal its continued vitality as an element of Christian [[legend]] rather than [[Christian mythology]].</ref> sebagai [[legiun Romawi]] yang seluruhnya berjumlah "enam ribu enam ratus enam puluh enam orang"<ref>6666 is not the normal number of soldiers in a Roman Legion, and its appearance in this context is interesting for its similarity to 666, which has a diametically opposite association as the well-known ''[[Number of the Beast]]'' in the [[Book of Revelation]].</ref> &mdash;— yang telah dikonversi secara massal menjadi [[Kekristenan|Kristen]] dan menjadi [[martir]] bersama pada tahun 286, menurut [[hagiografi]] [[Santo Mauritius]], pemimpin di antara orang-orang kudus dari legiun tersebut. Pembantaian legiun Thebes berlangsung pada masa pemerintahan [[Diokletianus]] antara tahun [[285]] dan [[306]] di Agaune, sekarang [[Saint-Maurice, Swiss]], [[Kanton Valais]]. [[Kalender orang kudus|Hari perayaan]] mereka jatuh pada tanggal 22 September.

* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01205a.htm ''Catholic Encyclopedia'':] "Agaunum"

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20041216065256/http://spclaver.tripod.com/id97.htm Martyrs of the Theban Legion:] in Switzerland at Agaunum, Solothurn, Zürich, Zurzach; in Italy at Bergamo, Turin, Piacenza, in the Cottian Alps, Pinerolo, Milian, Ventimilia; in Germany at Trier, Bonn, Cologne, Xanten

* [http://www.ucc.ie/milmart/maurorig.html David Woods, "The origin of the cult of St. Maurice"]

* {{it icon}} [http://www.cartantica.it/pages/LegioneTebea.asp Legione Tebea] (references to and images of all of the saints associated with the Theban Legion)