The church at Ephesus
“Wherefore, take unto you the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand in the evil day, having your loins girt...
Theodora was still too young
When this woman saw the populace assembled in the amphitheater, she placed laurel wreaths on her daughters’ heads and in their hands, and sent...
Nubian slaves Diocletian
Constantine had come to know and admire Empress Prisca during his stay in Nicomedia. Her daughter, Valeria, wife of the Caesar of the East,...
Anyone put Justinian’s ways
How could anyone put Justinian’s ways into words? These and many even worse vices were disclosed in him as in no other mortal nature...
Accurately together and sewed the body
Domitian’s wife was of free birth and otherwise noble; and neither had she herself ever done wrong to anybody, nor had she assented in...
Considerably more austere shrines of Mithras
Constantine had no wish to spend his brief holiday listening to the caterwauling of priests. But the two women had backed him into a...
Naz arenes appearances to his followers
Finally, Theognis told a beautiful story of how devoted women came to the sepulcher where Jesus’ body had been placed, ready to anoint it...
Strangely beautiful and simple invocation
A small reading stand or pulpit stood beside the altar. After going to it, the priest raised his arms and began to speak the...
After Justinian
Chapter II.
If any among them seek to introduce impious vanities, denying the resurrection or the judgment, or the work of God, or that angels...
Justinian (b.483- r.527-d.565)
Justinian (b.483- r.527-d.565): Novella 146: On Jews
A Permission granted to the Hebrews to read the Sacred Scriptures according to Tradition, in Greek, Latin or...
