Gelasius is also responsible for a popular celebration which is still marked every year - establishing St Valentine's Day on ...

before achieving her greatest renown in the early Roman empire. During this final period, her cult presented one of the most formidable and enduring rivalries to early Christianity. According to ...

In Late Antiquity, Christian leaders condemned paganism, sometimes leading to violent attacks on divine statues. What do ...

The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often ...

When we think of Rome and the Pope, we don't necessarily think of a Greek Pope. However, many Popes in the past had been of ...

which legalized Christianity and provided tolerance for all faiths in the Roman Empire. Constantine’s actions allowed for the churches and property seized during Diocletian’s reign to be ...

"By the conditions of the surrender [of the Teutons] three hundred of their married women were to be handed over to the Romans," the Christian ... as it existed during the Roman Empire.

If it seems that we are more Roman than Christian these days, it can help to recall that the hero of Easter is Jesus and not ...

He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often inflicted on social subversives – crucifixion. The New Testament Gospels say so. The Nicene Creed, one of Christianity’s key statements of faith, ...

He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often inflicted on social subversives – crucifixion. The New Testament Gospels say so. The Nicene Creed, one of Christianity’s key statements of faith, ...