Battles between these fighters in the Roman Colosseum were stopped in 404 A.D.
[DOC] [TLE] Saint Telemachus - Wikipedia [PAR] Saint Telemachus (also Almachus or Almachius) was a monk who, according to 
the Church historian Theodoret, tried to stop a gladiatorial fight in a Roman 
amphitheatre, and was stoned to ... Frederick George Holweck gives the year of 
his death as 391.