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Gratian

Latin name Flavius Gratianus. 359--383 ad, Roman emperor (367--383): ruled with his father Valentinian I (367--375); ruled the Western Roman Empire with his brother Valentinian II (375-83); appointed Theodosius I emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire (379)
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Gratian Murray Integrated School in Barangay Granada, Bacolod City were advised to go home on Tuesday, after some female students collapsed due to the alleged case of exorcism or hysteria.
Burchard's collection of laws may be the most important before Gratian. Here, we find comment on superstition, night-riding, the devil, pagan Diana, practice of the evil arts, and the need to expel such practitioners as heretics in order to preserve the faith from the plague of heresy.
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According to Ammianus, he was motivated in part by a desire to match the successes of his counterpart Gratian, the Western Roman Emperor, who had recently defeated the Alemanni, a Germanic tribe in Western Europe who had invaded Pannonia in central Europe.
(10.) Morris SD, Mallipeddi R, Oyama N, Gratian MJ, Harman KE, Bhogal BS, et al.
Gratian, a monk of Bologna, published in 1140 a systematic study of canon law known as the Decretum, which rapidly became accepted as authoritative.
Despite claims that it is the oldest continuing legal system in the Western world, canon law, in the sense of a volume of laws that applied to the whole Church, only became a reality around 1140 CE when an Italian monk, Gratian compiled and tried to harmonize canon law up until that time.
In 380 CE, three Caesars, Theodosius I, Gratian, and Valentinian II, delivered the 'Edict of Thessalonica' in order that all their subjects should profess the faith of the Bishop of Rome.
For example, he records that "Ambrose once had to intercede for a man who was being led off to be executed for treason simply because he had said that the present emperor (the young Gratian) was unworthy of his father, Valentinian" (p.
The entire legal systems which are now in place in all the democratic countries in the world were carefully crafted and codified in the thirteenth century (by Accursius) based on the Decretum of Gratian who had codified the Canon Law of the Church a century earlier in 1139-41.
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