Alexander, Severus
Alexander Severus
Profile Roman emperor from 222 to 235 . He succeeded his cousin, Elagabalus, to the imperial throne. Origen was invited by his mother, Mammma, to Antioch as his tutor. Severns respected Christianity and granted tolerance though there was some anti-Christian legislation in his reign. He was a disciple of “syncretism,” uniting together against a common enemy, and strove to establish order and moral decency at Rome. He was murdered by his mutinous soldiers .
Born in Aeco, Palestine
Died murdered in 235 at Sicula on the Rhine
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Alexander, Severus
a Roman emperor, was born at Acre in Phoenicia, in 205. He was carefully educated by his mother, and was adopted and made Caesar by his cousin Heliogabalus, at whose death Alexander was raised to the throne in his seventeenth year. The young emperor followed the noble example of Trajan and the Antonines; and, on the whole, governed ably both in peace and in war. He was murdered in 235, in an insurrection of his Gallic troops headed by the barbarian Maximin. Alexander was favorable to Christianity. following the predilections of his mother Mammmea; and he is said to have placed the statue of Jesus Christ in his private temple, in company with those of Orpheus and Apollonius Tyaneus. For a glowing account of his reign, as well as his studies in poetry, philosophy, and literature, see Gibbon, Decline and Fall, ch. 3.