10 Most Evil People of the 2nd Century CE

Key Facts

Other names	Thascius/Cassius Tertullianus Caecilius
Born	194
Location	Rome
Bloodline	Tertullian
Married	Yes
Children	Yes
Position	Pontifex Maximus of Carthage (225 - 251)
Died	251 (aged 75)

Source of Facts and Important Announcement

Status	Under Article 64.6 of the Covenant of One-Heaven (Pactum De Singularis Caelum) by Special Qualification shall be known as a Saint, with all sins and evil acts they performed forgiven.
Date of formal Beatification	Day of Redemption UCA[E1:Y1:A1:S1:M9:D1] also known as Fri, 21 Dec 2012.
Source of Facts	Self Confession and Revelation of Sainthood by the Deceased Spirit as condition of their confirmation as a true Saint.

Background

Born Cassius (Thascius) Tertullianus Caecilius around 183, the son of Quintus Septimius Flaccus Tertullianus otherwise known as "Tertullian". The name "Cyprian" was assigned to him much later and has nothing to do with his original name.

Cassius was born in Rome at the height of his ancestors reign under Septimus Severus and the reign of pagan high priest Pontifex Maximus Victor (193- 199). After the events surrounding the attempted coup against Emperor Caracalla (198-217) , Cassius accompanied his father back to Carthage where Tertullian used his massive new set of liturgical texts to start his own breakaway Cybele cult called "Tertullianism".

The Nth African Roman noble families had always claimed themselves superior in terms of the ancient Phoenician/Punic heritage of satanic worship of Moloch and his consort Tanis (from which the word Tunis and Tunisia originate).

When his father died in 225, Cassius (Cyprian) at the age of 31 became the new leader of the Tunis cult and claimed Pontifex Maximus of Carthage.

In 249, Serbian born General Gaius Messius Quintus Traianus Decius became Emperor. A pagan traditionalist, he sought to uphold the capital laws banning human sacrifice and in particular against Cybele zealots and the ultra Zealots of Tertullianism.

In 251, a second outbreak of the Antonine Plague of Smallpox stalked the Empire and up to 5,000 people a day were dying in Rome alone. Under such chaos, Emperor Decius branded it the "Plague of the Cyprian" labelling the Tertullian Messiah Cassius as an evil priest, sacrificing children to demonic gods. He ordered every Tertullian to be seized and executed and their cult disbanded.

In contrast, there is no indication the orders of Decius extended to Gnostics in anyway, nor to the Boethusians (later Orthodox Christians) in Alexandria.

Cassius (Cyprian) was forewarned and managed to save his father's extensive library of texts as well as his son Cassius the younger. However, Cyprian was captured at the family villa by the Roman force and executed.

By 252 and the death of Decius, the Tertullian movement that had grown to a church of several thousand was reduced to a rump of only a few hundred in hiding, with most devotees pledging an oath of loyalty to the Emperor and Rome and against Tertullian and his cult.

Frequently and incorrectly listed as a "Christian" Bishop-- neither Christianity was formed until 326 under Constantine and the position of Bisceop until 742.


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