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Why is the pope called Pontifex Maximus – a several thousand-year-old pagan Roman title?
The Roman emperors were central figures in the ancient Roman religion. The emperor also served as high priest, since he was ...
Vienna archaeologists reveal mass grave of fighters in Roman Empire-era battle
A heap of intertwined skeletal remains in a mass grave dating to the 1st-century Roman Empire, likely the bodies of warriors ...
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This week in Christian history: Holy Roman Emperor retires to monastery, Georg Spalatin born, Saint Augustine’s University opens
Holy Roman Emperor Charles V resigns ... from the Low Countries to Spain in September 1556, 39 years after his first such voyage. Then he was going to claim his kingdoms […] now he was sailing ...
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This day in history
1026 – Conrad II was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope John XIX. 1799 – Napoleon captured Jaffa Palestine. 1780 – The ...
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Charlemagne, le prince à cheval (1994)
It consists of five episodes and covers the period from the death of his father, Pepin the Short in AD 768 until Charlemagne's corronation as the first Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day ...
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In the first century AD, Jews lived across the Roman Empire in relative harmony.
By the beginning of the first century AD, Jews had spread from ... Synagogues were classified as colleges to get around Roman laws banning secret societies and the temples were allowed to collect ...
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In the first century AD, Jews lived across the Roman Empire in relative harmony.
By the beginning of the first century AD, Jews had spread from ... Synagogues were classified as colleges to get around Roman laws banning secret societies and the temples were allowed to collect ...