Friday, February 26, 2021

The Last Triumph in Rome ~ Diocletian and Maximian's Vicennalia Jubilee of AD 303

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Detail of a sculpture from the Arch of Constantine showing the Decennalia or Five Columns Monument in the background. Roman triumphs, those ...
Thursday, February 11, 2021

Maxentius and His Ill-Fated Reign ~ The last pagan emperor to rule from Rome or a usurper and "inhuman beast"?

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Background: The four original Tetrarchs: Diocletian, Maximian, Galerius and Constantius I. Foreground left: Constnatine the Great. Foregrou...
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Thursday, February 04, 2021

"Volumes could be written on the multiform works of succor of Pius XII" ~ The testimony of Eugenio Zolli, chief rabbi of Rome during World War II

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“No hero in history has commanded such an army; none is more militant, more fought against, none more heroic than that conducted by Pius XII...
Monday, January 25, 2021

"A monarch more wicked than all the nations of the earth" ~ Julian the Apostate and the martyrdom of Saints Juventius and Maximus

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The martyrdom of Saints Juventius and Maximus taken from the early 11th century Menologion of Basil II . January 25 is the feast day of the ...
Wednesday, January 20, 2021

On the Death of Nero ~ Classical and Early Christian Perspectives

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The Death of Nero as shown in an engraving from The Story of the Greatest Nations , 1901. I recently ran across a passage written by Lactant...
Thursday, December 31, 2020

The United States in 2020—and Mexico in 1988

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The mural decorating the bedroom wall in Mexico City featuring Che and Pancho. As we bid farewell to 2020, a year overloaded with the ridicu...
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Monday, December 07, 2020

The Miracle-Attended Death of Saint Ambrose of Milan as Recorded by His Secretary, Paulinus

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Detail from The Death of Saint Ambrose by Bon Boullogne, ca. 1706. Readers of this blog will recall that I have written frequently on the ev...
Wednesday, December 02, 2020

December 2 ~ Saint Bibiana, 4th century martyr during the reign of Julian the Apostate.

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Saint Bibiana refuses to sacrifice to the pagan gods, by Pietro da Cortona, AD 1626. This fresco is from the Church of St. Bibiana in Rome. ...
Tuesday, November 17, 2020

"His rage was so violent and so unbounded that he burst an artery." ~ Valentinian I dies of apoplexy in AD 375

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A gold solidus of Valentinian I. On November 17 (according to Jones in The Later Roman Empire ) or November 18 (according to the Loeb transl...