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| NOTARII was also the term given to shorthand writers who in the early days of the Christian Church reported the examinations and trials of the early Christian martyrs and confessors. They were employed to take down in writing the whole judicial process of the Roman judges against the martyrs, and to write out the circumstances of their examination and passion. The early notary recorded the questions put to the Martyrs and the answers they gave, indeed everything that passed during their trials and suffering. I leave it to your imagination as to what these entailed. These reports were called the Acts of the Martyrs and were the the original records preserved by the fledgling Christian Church. By this means accounts of the martyrdom of St Andrew, St Polycarp, and others were preserved, and the earliest collection of the lives of the SAINTS was derived from the same source. The first institution of these NOTARII at Rome was under the Emperor Fabian. Notaries were also employed to take down the discourse of eloquent preachers. By this means many of St Chrystostom's sermons were preserved. | | |
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