Anise

Martin was born around 515 or 520 in Pannonia, the Roman province along the middle Danube — roughly modern Hungary. He travelled east as a young man, spent time in Palestine…

His name means 'what God wills' — a real African Christian name of the period, not a title. He was born in North Africa around 390 and was a deacon at Carthage while Augustine…

Salvian was born about 400 near Trier or Cologne, in the Roman frontier country along the Rhine — and he watched it fall. Trier, one of the great imperial cities of the West…