The Love That Puzzled an Emperor
In 362 AD, Emperor Julian — whom history remembers as "Julian the Apostate" — sat in his palace writing a frustrated letter to a pagan...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on John 13:31-35.
In 362 AD, Emperor Julian — whom history remembers as "Julian the Apostate" — sat in his palace writing a frustrated letter to a pagan priest in Galatia. The emperor had spent years trying to revive Rome's old religions, but he kept running into the same maddening problem: the Christians. "These impious Galileans support not only their own poor," Julian wrote, "but ours as well."…
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