The church in Rome began formally celebrating Christmas on December 25 in 336, during the reign of the emperor Constantine. As Constantine had made Christianity the effective religion of the empire, some have speculated that choosing this date had the political motive of weakening the established pa...
The church in Rome began formally celebrating Christmas on December 25 in 336, during the reign of the emperorConstantine. As Constantine had made Christianity the effective religion of the empire, some have speculated that choosing this date had the political motive of weakening the established paga...
Roman governor Pliny the Younger wrote to Emperor Trajan that early Christians would “sing hymns to Christ as to a god.” Some scholars also believe Roman historian Suetonius references Jesus in noting thatEmperor Claudiushad expelled Jews from Rome who “were making constant disturbances at the ...
All Saints' Day, also known as All Hallows' Day, is a Christian holiday that is observed on November 1st in Western Christianity. All Saints' Day is a Christian memorial day celebrating the honor of all church saints, whether known or unknown. It is a day set aside to honor all the sa...
(b) All the four beasts are represented in the vision as irrational brutes; but the Little Horn possessed a human mouth and eyes which is, in other words, the description of a hideous monster endowed with reason and speech. He pro- claimed Christianity as the true religion, left Rome to...
What year was Charles V the Holy Roman Emperor? In which year was Julius Caesar assassinated by Roman senators? What year did Sulla die? In what period of Rome was the Forum of Trajan built? During what years did the Dark Ages of Greece occur?
The Roman Empire, the last ancient "world order," was famous for its militant anti-Christianity. Under Emperor Nero, Christians were thrown to the lions and lit as living torches in the garden where the emperor's entertainment took place. It should be noted that St. John ...
There is an obvious tension here regarding how we should treat the Sabbath as a Christian. In deciding the issue, it is worth remembering that Jesus pointed out that God established a day of rest for the sake of people, not the other way around (Mark 2:27). Sabbath observance is not ...
Pentarchy, in early Byzantine Christianity, the proposed government of universal Christendom by five patriarchal sees under the auspices of a single universal
of the most important of the Germanic peoples, the Visigoths separated from the Ostrogoths in the 4th century ad,raided Roman territories repeatedly, and established great kingdoms in Gaul and Spain. ... It was apparently during this period that the Visigoths were converted to Arian Christianity...