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  • Here is what Catholic.org online has to say about St. Ceraunus:

    Ceraunos and Cernunnos Jan 2009

  • Perhaps Ceraunus was one of the "saints" that was kicked off the official list of "saints" during the reforms in the 1960s.

    Ceraunos and Cernunnos Jan 2009

  • St. Ceraunus is not listed in the Catholic Encyclopedia online.

    Ceraunos and Cernunnos Jan 2009

  • Homer Smith "Man and His Gods," 1952 says the same as Walker - Ceraunus was the Christian incarnation of the Greek god Charon.

    Ceraunos and Cernunnos Jan 2009

  • Ceraunus, was slain in a fight, and his army cut in pieces by the

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • When he tried to seize Macedon, however, he was treacherously assassinated by the disinherited son of Ptolemy, Ptolemy Ceraunus, who then ruled Macedon until he was killed opposing the Celtic invasion in 279.

    b. The Wars of the Diadochi 2001

  • Seleucus III Soter or Ceraunus (“thunderbolt”), son of Seleucus II, was murdered during a war with Attalus I (224–221).

    d. The Seleucids and Pergamum 2001

  • After St. Germain other bishops of the Merovingian period were: St. Céran (Ceraunus, 606-21), who collected and compiled the Acts of the Martyrs, and during whose episcopate a council of seventy-nine bishops (the first national council of France) was held at the basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul;

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • Ceraunus_, was defeated by them in a great battle, captured, and put to death.

    Outline of Universal History George Park Fisher 1868

  • Ptolemy Ceraunus quitted Egypt in disgust, and fled to the court of Lysimachus; and Arsinoe, the wife of Lysimachus, jealous of her stepson Agathocles, the heir apparent to the throne, and desirous of securing the succession for her own children, conspired with Ptolemy

    A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest William Smith 1853

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