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…

In 312, Constantine saw something before he fought for the city of Rome.

Over twenty years later, Constantine told the church historian Eusebius what happened. There was a mysterious daytime vision with writing, a call to conquer, seen by the whole…

The Chi Rho. The letter Chi, the letter Rho. The first letters in the Greek rendering of Christ. Superimpose them and you have a monogram, a Christogram, that stood for Christ, pronounced like “Cairo”. When was it first used? It…

Bishop Eusebius, the first church historian, left us most of our descriptions of early Christian basilicas.

But when one comes within the gates he does not permit him to enter the sanctuary immediately, with impure and unwashed feet; but leaving as…

His prefect pressured him to sign the order that would execute some men, to stop deferring. “Would that I had not learned to write”, the emperor Nero cried.

Did Nero kill his stepbrother? His mother? Did he sing of the fall…