{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/008/0080375.htm","path":"chr/ecf/008/0080375.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/008/0080375.htm","text":"Chapter VIII.\u2014Clement\u2019s Family History.\nThen said Peter: \u201cIs there then no one of your family surviving?\u201d I answered: \u201cThere are indeed many powerful men, coming of the stock of C\u00e6sar; for C\u00e6sar himself gave a wife to my father, as being his relative, and educated along with him, and of a suitably noble family. By her my father had twin sons, born before me, not very like one another, as my father told me; for I never knew them. But indeed I have not a distinct recollection even of my mother; but I cherish the remembrance of her face, as if I had seen it in a dream. My mother\u2019s name was Matthidia, my father\u2019s Faustinianus: my brothers\u2019, Faustinus and Faustus. 792 Now, when I was barely five years old, my mother saw a vision\u2014so I learned from my father\u2014by which she was warned that, unless she speedily left the city with her twin sons, and was absent for ten years, she and her children should perish by a miserable fate.\n[Comp. Homily XII. 8, where the names given are: Mattidia, Faustus (father); Faustinus and Faustinianus, the twin sons. With these names some connect the German legend of Faust; see Schaff, History, ii. 442.\u2014R.]","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol VIII: Pseudo-Clementine Literatu...","type":"page"}