New Year’s Eve celebrates 4th-century pope whose legend shaped ideas of church & state
On Dec. 31, while many people are preparing for their New Years Eve parties, some Roman Catholics will also mark the feast ...
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Why Armenian Christians Recall Noah’s Ark in December
In fact, our history has been full of floods—ups ... The fourth-century church father Eusebius of Caesarea connected Noah to the Armenians through his great-grandson Togarmah, father of the ...
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New Year’s Eve celebrates St. Silvester – the 4th-century pope whose legend shaped ideas of church and state
Little is known for certain about Silvester’s life, but he lived during a transformational period in the history ... Eusebius of Nicomedia. These decades when Silvester presided over the church ...
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St. Peter and the Popes
[Against Heresies III, 3, 3] In 325 A.D., Eusebius of Caesarea, writes The History of the Church and quotes St. Irenaeus’ list (V, 6). Eusebius also cites 1 Peter 5:13 as proof that St. Peter ...
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Picturing Christ: how has Jesus been depicted over the last 2,000 years?
Many experts in Christian art history ... him. Church leaders had originally been reluctant to have such images in Christian places of worship. Irenaeus (died c.202), Clement of Alexandria (died 215), ...