Novatus
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Novatus is an early Christian saint. His feast day is 20 June.
St. Novatus by Bernardino Nocchi (1803), church of Santa Pudenziana, Rome, Italy
Phrygians
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The Phrygians were an ancient Indo-European speaking people who inhabited central-western Anatolia in antiquity.
Novatus
…thought to be part of the senatorial palace or of the baths built by Novatus. According to the 5th-century church historian Philostorgius, Novatus was of Phrygian descent. The city of Novato, California, is named after a local Miwok leader who had probably been given the name of Novatus at his baptism…
Phrygians
Phrygian soldiers. Detail from a reconstruction of a Phrygian building at Pazarlı, Çorum, Turkey, 7th–6th centuries BC.
Tomb at ‘Midas City’, near Eskişehir (sixth century BC)
The Phrygian goddess Cybele with her attributes