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silvanus (dict)
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SilvanusSilvanus (Latin, "of the woodlands") was also a Roman tutelary spirit of woods, apparently inherited from the Etruscan Selvans. See Silvanus (mythology). Thus in the United Kingdom the Silvanus Trust works to develop the viable and sustainable management of small woodlands, concentrating in the southwest of England http://www.silvanus.org.uk/. Claudius Silvanus a Christian of Gaul, was briefly (for 28 days) a self-declared emperor of the Western Roman Empire, in 355 CE http://www.roman-emperors.org/silvanus.htm. Saint Sylvanus Bishop of Emesa in Phoenicia was martyred in the company of Saint Luke the Deacon and Saint Mucius the Lector in the persecutions of Maximian, ca. 311 CE. http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saints1g.htm. The Teachings of Silvanus is a Gnostic text among the texts of the Nag Hammadi library, hidden in Egypt, when heterodox writings were being collected and burned, and rediscovered in 1945.
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