Emperor Constantinesupported his mother Helena on her pilgrimage to Jerusalem. As a result of this journey, the sacred relics of Christianity were brought to the new capital Constantinople. He placed some of these sacred relics on the basis of the column he erected in the Forum of Constantine. ...
2. Triumvirate (Rule of Three) The transition from the Roman Republic to Imperial Rome was so complicated and involved so many plots that it has, and still, inspired a lot of books and movies (e.g. Shakespeare). This period that we’ve emphasized specifically in this article is theTriumvi...
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There might also be a few to be found in the Black Sea. On the high road you might travel from Jerusalem to Rome, and from Rome to Cologne or Cadiz, with no fear of any enemy except such banditti and footpads as the central or local government could not always manage to put down....
Further, Chrysostom speaks of James, and not Peter, as possessing the chief rule and authority in Jerusalem and over the Jerusalem Council:This (James) was bishop, as they say, and therefore he speaks last…There was no...
The question is, Do the Scriptures, the facts of history and the writings of the church fathers support the Roman Catholic claims for authority in her teachings of papal rule and infallibility and her claims to the one true church?The papal teachings which are foundational for Roman Catholic ...
In the Middle East, the Pope has alternately pleased and disappointed all sides. His push for the Iran nuclear deal bolstered the White House but angered Israel. The Vatican recognized Palestinian statehood in June, infuriating Jerusalem, but chose not to support Palestinians’ effort to raise th...
The Roman Empire conquered a lot of cities, and many of them were kept as the administrative centers of the original kingdoms such as Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Athens. Some were reconstructed such as Carthage and Sarmizegethusa Regia (Dacia). Jerusalem was completely destroyed after numerous Jew...
Titus was a Roman emperor (79–81), and the conqueror of Jerusalem in 70. After service in Britain and Germany, Titus commanded a legion under his father, Vespasian, in Judaea (67). Following the emperor Nero’s death in June 68, Titus was energetic in p
the episcopal centers established by the Apostles as the seats of their identifiable successors in the governance of the church (traditionally at Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, and Rome); and the apostolic tradition ofnormativedoctrine as the “rule of faith” and the standard of Christian conduct...