Caesarea Maritima

What this place is

• School or library — Origen's school after he left Alexandria, and the library Pamphilus built around his books — the shelf Eusebius wrote his history from
• Port — Herod's artificial harbour, the sea gate of Judaea and where the voyage to Rome began

Who is recorded here

• Saint Peter travel · AD 40
• Herod Agrippa I death · AD 44
• Paul the Apostle travel · AD 52
• Luke the Evangelist residence · AD 57
• Paul the Apostle travel · AD 57
• Paul the Apostle imprisonment · AD 57
• Philip the Evangelist birth · AD 100
• Origen ministry · AD 232
• Alexander of Jerusalem death · AD 251
• Origen death · AD 254
• Eusebius of Caesarea birth · AD 265
• Pamphilus of Caesarea death · AD 309
• Eusebius of Caesarea death · AD 340
• Paul the Apostle residence

What happened here

• Pilate is recalled to Rome AD 36
• Baptism of Cornelius AD 40
• The death of Herod Agrippa AD 44
• Cornelius is made bishop of Caesarea AD 45
• Philip at Caesarea with his four daughters AD 57
• Paul before Felix at Caesarea AD 57
• Paul appeals to Caesar AD 59
• Paul before Agrippa and Festus AD 59
• Origen is condemned at Alexandria and settles at Caesarea AD 231
• Gregory studies under Origen at Caesarea AD 233
• Pamphilus builds the library at Caesarea AD 290
• The Apology for Origen written in prison AD 308
• The martyrdom of Pamphilus AD 310
• Eusebius writes the Church History AD 324

In art

• Harbor Scene with St. Paul’s Departure from Caesarea — Jan Brueghel the Elder (1596)
• File:קיסריה העתיקה.jpg — Idomeir

About the place

Caesarea, also Caesarea Maritima, Caesarea Palaestinae or Caesarea Stratonis, was an ancient and medieval port city on the coast of the eastern Mediterranean, and later a small fishing village.

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