There he throws a mud-ball at a passing soldier and mocks Roman soldiers as being absent-minded. This triggers a fight between the group and the soldiers. Afterwards, they board a pirate ship, where they’re immediately surrounded by its crew. After defeating the pirates, they return to ...
A convert to Christianity in mid-life, Cyprian was acclaimed bishop of Carthage during a time of intense Empire-wide persecution by the Roman imperial authorities under the emperor Decius. In the twelve year span between his conversion and his martyrdom in AD 258 during the reign of Valerian,...
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Only the eastern emperor Arcadius and his wife Eudoxia have coins with a hand of God like this, and only in the time period 383-388. Additional examples can be found inTable 7. Note for collectors: The "hand of God" obverse is very unusual on Roman coins, but this type is nevertheless...
heresy and to excom- municate those heretics who would not be reconciled, and the Byzantine emperor claimed the right to punish those whom the Church labelled heretics.12 When Justinian I (527–65) systematized the Roman law code he equated heresy with treason, and made both capital offences...
affirming and reproducing the social order. That was an order that gave maximum privilege to freeborn Roman men; freeborn Roman women, though, were strictly confined to matron status. Freeborn men were entitled to have sex with unmarried women not of their social class, and also with men -- ...
aIn ningbo 在宁波[translate] aTo find the place I love the most. 要发现地方I爱多数。[translate] avalentine was a christian church leader during the reign of the roman emperor claudius. 华伦泰是一位基督教会领导在罗马皇帝claudius的王朝期间。[translate]...
In France, Napoleon (1806) imposed upon all the churches of the empire uniformity in the matter of catechisms and, in spite of the opposition of Pius VII, published the “Imperial Catechism”, containing a chapter on duties towards the emperor. This was replaced after the fall of the empire...
s of the US, you see, as well as their Sunday School teachers, are usually inclined to insist that John's Revelation is "not prophecy of the future," that it is only "apocalyptic literature," and that "the Beast" of Revelation is only a reference to the long-dead Roman emperor Nero...
Roman Catholic Office of Readings. From a treatise by St Augustine on the first epistle of John.Our heart longs for God. Latin:In Epistolam Joannis ad Parthos tractatus X. J. P. Migne,Patrologia Latinavol. 35 1977−2062. Paris, 1841. ...