By openly opposing these accepted tenets of Catholic worship ... owes much of its widespread influence to 4th-century Roman Emperor Constantine's conversion for its current foothold as one ...

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The Catholic News Agency (CNA ... Agatha was ruthlessly tortured and martyred under the Roman Emperor Decius in the third century and credited after her death with saving her home town of Catania.

How was the Roman emperor viewed by his subjects? How strongly did their perception of his role shape his behaviour? Adopting a fresh approach, Panayiotis Christoforou focuses on the emperor from the ...

Caracalla was not the creator of the Roman baths as we know them today, but he was the one who perfected them and ordered the construction of the ones in Rome. Agrippina, Nero, Domitian ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Roman military structure in Turkey dating to the fourth century, when Emperor Constantius II ruled. Archaeologists have unearthed a fourth-century ...

An outstanding cast that includes names such as Denzel Washington, who plays Emperor Macrinus and has already been praised by critics, who note that he is eligible for the Academy Award for Best ...