Marinus
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Marinus may refer to:
- Marinus (crater)Marinus (crater)Marinus is a lunar crater that is located near the southeastern limb of the Moon. At this location it is viewed at an oblique angle from the Earth, limiting the amount of detail that can be observed. It lies due north of the slightly larger and dark-floored crater Oken...
, a crater on the Moon - Marinus (given name)Marinus (given name)Marinus is a male given name, derived from a Roman family name. Marinus may mean any of the following:*Marinus, a son of Emperor Heraclius*Pope Marinus I *Pope Marinus II *Saint Marinus...
, for people named Marinus - Marinus of TyreMarinus of TyreMarinus of Tyre, was a Greek geographer, cartographer and mathematician, who founded mathematical geography.-Biography and historical context:...
(70–130), Greek geographer, cartographer and mathematician - Marinus of CaesareaMarinus of CaesareaMarinus of Caesarea was a Roman soldier, who, for being a Christian, suffered martyrdom.-Life:A soldier in a Roman legion, Marinus was promoted to the position of centurion. Before he was able to assume the post, a rival claimed that before a centurion could accept the post, he was to offer a...
(died 262), Roman soldier, christian martyr and saint - Saint MarinusSaint MarinusSaint Marinus was the founder of the world's oldest surviving republic, San Marino, in 301. Tradition holds that he was a stonemason by trade who came from the island of Rab on the other side of the Adriatic Sea , fleeing persecution for his Christian beliefs in the Diocletianic Persecution...
(died 366), founder of San Marino, feast day September 3 - Marinus of NeapolisMarinus of NeapolisMarinus was a Neoplatonist philosopher born in Flavia Neapolis , Palestine in around 450 AD. He was probably a Samaritan, or possibly a Jew....
(450–500), Neo-Platonist philosopher - Pope Marinus IPope Marinus IPope Marinus I , Pope between December 16, 882 and May 15, 884. He succeeded John VIII in about the end of December 882.-Prior history:...
(died 884), or Martin II, Pope from 882-884 - Pope Marinus IIPope Marinus IIPope Marinus II , born in Rome, was Pope from 942 to 946. He was elevated to the papacy through intervention of Alberic II of Spoleto and concentrated on administrative aspects of the papacy.-External links:*...
(died 946), or Martin III, Pope from 942-946 - Marinus (general), 6th century general under Byzantine Emperor Anastasius IAnastasius I (emperor)Anastasius I was Byzantine Emperor from 491 to 518. During his reign the Roman eastern frontier underwent extensive re-fortification, including the construction of Dara, a stronghold intended to counter the Persian fortress of Nisibis....
- Julius MarinusJulius MarinusJulius Marinus was the father of Roman Emperor Philip the Arab. He was deified by his son. Scholar Pat Southern writes that this deification was unusual because Marinus was not an emperor, but it gave Philip's reign more legitimacy....
, father of Phillip the Arab.