Maximianopolis (Palestine)

Maximianopolis was an ancient city in Palestina Secunda. Maximianopolis resumed its ancient name of Rimmon, and is now Roummaneh, nearly four miles to the south of Lajjun or Mageddo (see Legio). It is also a Catholic titular see.

Biblical identification

Its ancient name is Adad-Remmon, according to the Latin Vulgate, and according to the Hebrew original, Hadad-Rimmon. It is found in Zach., xii, 11:

"...there shall be a great lamentation in Jerusalem like the lamentation of Adadremmon in the plain of Mageddon." This is an allusion to the death of Josias, King of Jerusalem, killed by the Pharaoh Nechao in the battle fought near this place.^[1]

Bishops

In the time of the so-called Pilgrim of Bordeaux^[2] and of St. Jerome^[3], Adad-Remmon already bore the name of Maximianopolis. Three of its ancient bishops are known:

• Paul, in 325^[4];
• Megas, in 518,
• and Domnus, in 536^[5].

Notes

1. ^ IV Kings, xxiii, 29; II Par. xxxv, 20-25.
2. ^ ed. Geyer, 19, 27.
3. ^ "Comment. in Zachar.", ad cap. xii, 11; "Comment. In Oz.", 5.
4. ^ Gelzer, "Patrum Nicaenorum nomina", lxi)--not Maximus, as Le Quien gives it in Oriens Christianus, III, 703.
5. ^ Le Quien, op. cit., 703-06.

References

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed (1913). "Maximianopolis". Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.  The entry cites:
  • GUÉRIN, Description de la Palestine: Samarie (Paris, 1875), II, 228-230;
  • Heinrich Gelzer, Georgii Cyprii Descriptio orbis romani (Leipzig, 1890), 193-96;
  • LEGENDRE in VIG., Dict. de la Bible, s.v. Adadremmon.