New Year’s Eve celebrates St. Silvester – the 4th-century pope whose legend shaped ideas of church and state
On Dec. 31, while many people are preparing for their New Years Eve parties, some Roman Catholic Christians will also mark ...
Christianity Today24d
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 ...
New Haven Register11d
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 ...
Greek Reporter12d
Early Christians Had a Very Different Date for Jesus’ Birth
The date of 25 December, 4 BCE was not always viewed as the date of the birth of Jesus. What did the early Christians believe?
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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 ...