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…

In his Church History, Eusebius quotes Josephus on the signs leading up to the destruction of the Jewish temple. One happened at Pentecost and involved a certain Jesus …

the son of Ananias, a common countryman, four years before the war, when…

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…

Photius wrote his book of reviews in the early ninth century. One was on Eusebius’ “Life of Constantine”. 

He’s good. In just one sentence, he covers the subject matter. Constantine and the Church and the form is eulogy.

Read the Life of…