- Silvanus
Silvanus may refer to:
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Silvanus (mythology) , a Roman tutelary spirit of woods, apparently inherited from the Etruscan deity Selvan
*Silvanus, also calledSilas , an early Christian and companion of Paul
*Silvanus of the Seventy , another early Christian and traditionally among Jesus' seventy apostles
*Saint Silvanus was one of the seven sons ofSaint Felicity of Rome (2nd century)
*Claudius Silvanus , a Frankish usurper in 355
*"Teachings of Silvanus ", 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
*Silvanus Melea Otieno , posthumously controversial Kenyan lawyer
*Silvanus Trevail Cornish architect
*Silvanus (Forgotten Realms) , a Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons deityA variant, Sylvanus, may refer to:
*Colonel
Sylvanus Thayer , "Father of the United States Military Academy"
*Saint Sylvanus , Bishop of Emesa in Phoenicia, martyred in the company of Saint Luke the Deacon and Saint Mucius the Lector in the persecutions ofMaximian , "c." 311
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