The Bishop Who Outlasted Four Emperors
In 356 AD, imperial soldiers burst into a church in Alexandria, Egypt, swords drawn, under orders from Emperor Constantius II to arrest Bishop Athanasius. His...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 97:1-2, 5-6, 9.
In 356 AD, imperial soldiers burst into a church in Alexandria, Egypt, swords drawn, under orders from Emperor Constantius II to arrest Bishop Athanasius. His crime? Refusing to accept the Arian teaching that diminished Christ's divinity. Athanasius slipped into the Egyptian desert, beginning one of five exiles forced upon him by four different Roman emperors across seventeen years. The emperors who opposed him commanded legions.…
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