Talk:Dorothea of Caesarea

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What is the source of those death years estimations? Dorothea of Caesarea could not have been executed by Diocletian in 311. He was in retirement since 305. Dorothea of Alexandrea could not have been executed by Maximinus in 320. He was already deceased in 313. User:Dimadick
 * Sigh. This is the fault of my source, then.  You know, Father Alban Butler ought to have known, what with his Classical education.  Omelbert was the other source, and, again, he should have known.  I'll see if I can find more.  Geogre 17:39, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, the fault is mine. Butler knew his emperors: her parents were killed by Diocletian, and she died under the Diocletian persecution, which continued, but she was a victim of the marriage laws, apparently.  Quite a few medieval virgin martyrs have stories that emphasize that brief law (fear over declining native Roman population led to several commands from different emperors demanding that noble women marry and produce children).  The story was popular because of how well it worked as a cautionary tale for nuns, and that's one reason for the popularity of this saint.  My error on the second saint is my source's fault.  It was the Cambridge Guide, which has demonstrated to me enough errors in other matters that I plan to use it less and less.  Geogre 17:47, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Split without discussion
Nice. Now, even though 70% of the article is what I wrote, I'm nowhere in the edit history. How wonderful! No. Now it seems that I spent time writing a disambiguation page. Any other of my contributions people would like to obliterate me from? Just let me know. Geogre (talk) 12:19, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

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Dorothea or Dorothy
The article itself starts with Dorothy and uses it (although granted, not exclusively). Is there an overriding reason the article is titled Dorothea instead of Dorothy?--Richardson mcphillips (talk) 12:07, 6 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Indeed. I came here to call shenanigans on this article's spelling of her name. Shenanigans! I shall fetch a broom. 69.255.250.219 (talk) 17:17, 23 September 2017 (UTC)