Colosseum - Saint Telemachus and the End of Gladiator Fighting

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Descripcion foto: In 404 AD, a Christian monk known as Saint Telemachus tried to stop a gladiatorial fight and was killed for this reason. While it is said that he simply stood up in his seat and pleaded for the gladiatorial fighting to end in the name of Christ, other accounts state that he left his seat and entered the Colosseum arena where he then tried to intervene in the fighting. He was killed either by one of the Gladiators or stoned to death by the spectators. The Christian Emperor Honorius was impressed by the monk's martyrdom and it spurred him to issue a historic ban on gladiatorial fights. Events at the Colosseum continued until 523 AD, almost 50 years after the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD. The very last spectacle held in the Colosseum was a Venatio, an animal hunt.

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