Key Facts
 Born 145
 Location  Former Phoenician city of Neapolis, Leptis Magna in Libya
Bloodline Severans
Married At least twice
Children Yes, including Lucius Septimius Bassianus (Caracalla) and Publius Septimius Geta
Emperor April 193 - 211
Died 211 CE in Rome

 
 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
  Septimius Severus was born around 145 CE and raised at Leptis Magna (modern Libya, southeast of Carthage, modern Tunisia, North Africa), formerly a Phoenician settlement known as Neapolis. Severus came from a wealthy, distinguished local family of equestrian rank. Severus was of Berber and Roman ancestry.
  His great uncle General Lucius Septimus Flaccus famously took an expedition across the Sahara, gaining the position of proconsul of Pannonia Inferior early in the reign of Emperor Commodus (180-192).
  While the father of Septimius Severus did not hold any official military rank, his marriage to Fulvia Pia of the exiled Fulvius priestly clan from Tusculum, south of Rome still indicated some significance influence.
  The Fulvius clan were forced to abandon their estates and seek refuge in North Africa after Emperor Antonius Pius (138 - 161) a dedicated follower of the Gnostic/Nazarene philosophy of Jesus finally sealed the catacombs - the secret centres of human sacrifice and worship of Paulinity (Catholic Christianity) , following the earlier edicts of Emperor Domitian (51-96) who made human sacrifice a capital crime and closed down the largest temple to Cybele in the ancient world on Mons Vaticanus (Vatican Hill).
  Given his Phoenician heritage and his maternal grandfather being the exiled Cybele priestly family of Fulvius Pius, it is almost certain that Septimus Severus was secretly a Cybele worshipper (the label Christian not invented until Constantine a hundred years later).
  In 172, Severus was made a Senator by then emperor Marcus Aurelius. In 190 Severus became consul, and in the following year received from the emperor Commodus (successor to Marcus Aurelius) the command of the legions in Pannonia.
  On the murder of Pertinax by the troops in 193, they proclaimed Severus Emperor at Carnuntum, whereupon he hurried to Italy. The former emperor, Didius Iulianus, was condemned to death by the Senate and killed, and Severus took possession of Rome without opposition.
  His rapid rise to power indicates in no small part the retained influence of the Fulvius clan with other noble Roman families. Some of his first acts as Emperor reveal his debt to Fulvius Pius and support of the noble families associated with Magna Mater (Cybele).
  In 193, Severus was the first Emperor to lift the ban on Magna Mater as a Capital Crime. This ban was never Christian, as the word Christian was not invented until Constantine one hundred years later. Nor was it extended to the Boethusians of the Eastern regions of the Empire.
  In 193, Severus also promptly closed down the Gnostic school of Valentinius teaching the true scriptures and message of Jesus, now being run by his son Hippolytus, who at the age of 79 was shipped off to Sardinia and died soon after.
  The murder of Hippolytus was kept as a state secret for most of the reign of the Severans, on account of the substantial support of Gnosticism across the Roman Empire and in Rome on account of its enlightened message, anti-human sacrifice, self-restraint and its natural association to Stoicism.
  Significantly, Severus ordered the reopening of the Phrygianum of Magna Mater, (the Great Temple of Cybele) on Vatican Hill, granting the temple to his uncle Gaius Fulvius Victor as the first non-Emperor Pontifex Maximus since the religion was first formed. Fulvius appointed himself Ponifex Maximus using the name Victor (Victorius) as a symbol of their victory over the Gnostics of Valentinius.
  An indication of just how large the Phrygianum once was is indicated by the fact that the restoration work on Vatican Hill would not be completed until his grandson was Pontifex Maximus (Pope Callixtus I).
  Emperor Severus is probably most infamous for his later edicts around 197/198 CE supposedly against both Christians and Jews. The events can be explained in the context of the battle between the Paulinists and Boethusians or as we understand them - the Catholics and the Orthodox Eastern Churches.
  Victor demanded that all followers of Cybele throughout the Empire, especially in Greece and Turkey must bow down to him as supreme head. This demand was promptly rejected by the Greeks and Roman colonies in Turkey who considered the new views of Pontifex Maximus to be utterly repugnant and heresy. As a result, Severus forbid people to convert to either a Boethusian or even a Jew and began persecuting their leadership, particularly in Alexandria and Syria.
  Meanwhile, his cousin Quintus Septimus Flaccus Tertullianus (Tertullian), a former jurist was instrumental in using the Imperial Scribes and Libraries to write the first and comprehensive doctrinal overview of the new Cult of Cybele.
  Severus dies in 211 and was succeeded by his sons Caracalla and Geta who were advised by his surviving wife Julia Domna.
   
   
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