In the Martyrs of Palestine, Christian Historian Eusebius wrote of his fellows who would die rather than sacrifice to the gods of Rome.

His account is largely free of the miraculous - though there is the sea threw out before the…

His detractors (whether evangelicals who dislike caesaro-papism or anti-Christians out to axe the “first Christian” emperor) have the latter-day Constantine prancing around like an aging Queen. Part of his dress was on his head, they say. He was the bewigged…

The sunbeam …

an obelisk is a rough stone, rising to a great height, shaped like a pillar in the stadium; and it tapers upwards in imitation of a sunbeam, keeping its quadrilateral shape, till it rises almost to a point,…

The argument over the nature of God between Arius and his bishop Alexander made a most serious disturbance which had invaded the peace of the Church. It extended to all the Eastern provinces and the Church’s inspired teaching was exposed to the…

Centuries before our time, Cicero derives religion this way: Those who carefully took in hand all things pertaining to the gods were called religiosi, from relegere [careful consideration]. Such reverence is in keeping with the Roman reverence for tradition followed by the…