There is no mistaking the Sabbath of the Jews. At the end of the week, the seventh day, Saturday. Jews rest that day. The word means rest. God rested that day after creating the world over the previous six days. Keep…

The Church was attacked from within. By Heretics …

Origin: 1300–50; ME heretik < MF heretique < LL haereticus < Gk hairetikós able to choose (LGk: heretical)

In Against Heresies, Epiphanius quotes against these choosers …

There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines,…

Who built St Peter’s? Books and web sites invariably credit Constantine [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]. But why? The histories of the time are silent. One book, St. Peter’s in the Vatican, critiqued the sources for this conclusion.

• Inscriptions in old St. Peter’s
  the monastery of…

Eusebius quotes a letter of Constantine to his eastern subjects, posted soon after he took the east. It is, the church historian wrote …

an admonitory letter to the inhabitants of every province, respecting the error of idolatry into which his…

The persecutor …

And now, when Galerius was in the eighteenth year of his reign, God struck him with an incurable plague. A malignant ulcer formed itself low down in his secret parts, and spread by degrees. … Already approaching to its…