The Hispanic who recruited a colossal army of gladiators to be Pope

by time news

2023-05-25 17:03:39

They died screaming in pain and in the heat of the flames that rose mercilessly through the walls. That day in 366, more than a hundred supporters of Ursinus, Supreme Pontiff of Rome, were assassinated in the Basilica of Sicinino. The army hired by Damaso he had no mercy. They threw tiles on the heads of their enemies and set fire to the building regardless of the age, sex or condition of the victims. Later, barbarism spread through the streets to the entire sacred city.

It was a bloodbath starring a colorful retinue of charioteers, gladiators and gravediggers that ended in the rise to the papal chair of the aspirant, a cleric of Hispanic origin who yearned for power. The episode is one of the many that Rome parked on the margins of history; partly out of shame. And there is hardly any information about him today. Just some loose Time.news and some testimony under the rug that the historian specialized in ancient Rome Federico Romero Díaz has unraveled to produce one of his latest works.

Led by Romero –co-author and coordinator of the work ‘Ab urbe condita’, historian, president of Disseminators of History and co-founder of Day of Romanity– In this new ABC podcast, we review Dámaso’s rise to power and his colleague Ursino’s fall from grace. But we not only focus on the battle to the death that took place in the streets of Rome, but also on the origins of the suitor – Hispanic to the core, but born in an unknown region – and the internal struggles between the Arian and Orthodox sides of church.

Credits

Screenplay and production: Manuel P. Villatoro.

Editing: Manuel Garre.

Announcement: Manuel Garre, David Sánchez de Castro, Manuel P. Villatoro.

Collaboration: Federico Romero Díaz.

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