For an entire year they met [with others] in the church and instructed large numbers; and it was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians.27 Now at this time some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. 28 One of them named Agabus stood up and prophesied through ...
In Antioch the ·followers [disciples] were called Christians for the first time [C highlighting that they were followers of Christ, and perhaps that they were no longer viewed as merely a sect within Judaism]. 27 ·About that time [L In those days] some prophets came [L down] ...
Yes. Besides the account in Acts 13:46-48 where Paul and Barnabas in Antioch preached the Scriptures to the Gentiles, who heard, believed and glorified the word of God, for they “were ordained to eternal life” to believe, in Acts 16 we see the gospel being preached in a city called...
In the first book, the praises of St. Agnes, and in the second, the conduct and virtues of the Blessed Virgin Mary, (which he proposes as a perfect pattern to virgins,) the example of St. Thecla, and the history of a Christian virgin of Antioch, who was carried to the stews, 8 ...
When an earthquake struck Antioch in 1169, a certain Hermannus was in the church of saint Peter in the said city. The roof collapsed and more than a hundred and forty people were buried alive under the rubble. Hermannus was one of them, and at the moment of despair he decided to ...
Next year (1097) the real fighting forces crossed the Bosphorus. Essentially they were Norman in leadership and spirit. They stormed Nicæa, marched by much the same route as Alexander had followed fourteen centuries before, to Antioch. The siege of Antioch kept them a year, and in June ...
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The Byzantine Empire had inherited the cultural heritage of Ancient Greece. During the rise of the Byzantine Empire, every city that possessed this heritage (Athens, Alexandria, Antioch and Istanbul) were within the borders of the empire.
It was in Antioch that the disciples were first called Christians. Threats against the Church[bx] 27 A Famine in the World.[by] During these days, some prophets[bz] came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. 28 One of them, named Agabus, stood up and predicted through the Spirit that a ...
These wise men are said to have laid the foundations of this first Christian church. (Ken: According to Acts, believers were first called Christians in Antioch. Wouldn't that be the first Christian church?) It is well-known that by A.D. 161, Christianity had spread widely throughout the...