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The Discovery of the Life-Bringing Cross and of the Holy Nails.

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Concerning Helena, the Mother of the Emperor; she visited Jerusalem, built Temples in that City, and performed other Godly Works: Her Death.

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Temples Built by Constantine the Great; the City called by his Name; its Founding; the Buildings within it; the Temple of Michael the Archsoldier, in the Sosthenium, and the Miracles which have occurred there.

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What Constantine the Great effected about the Oak in Mamre; he also built a Temple.

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Constantine destroyed the Places dedicated to the Idols, and persuaded the People to prefer Christianity.

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The Reason why under Constantine, the Name of Christ was spread throughout the Whole World.

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How the Iberians received the Faith of Christ.

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How the Armenians and Persians embraced Christianity.

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Sapor King of Persia is excited against the Christians. Symeon, Bishop of Persia, and Usthazanes, a Eunuch, suffer the Agony of Martyrdom.

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Christians slain by Sapor in Persia.

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Pusices, Superintendent of the Artisans of Sapor.

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Tarbula, the Sister of Symeon, and her Martyrdom.

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Martyrdom of St. Acepsimas and of his Companions.

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The Martyrdom of Bishop Milles and his Conduct. Sixteen Thousand Distinguished Men in Persia suffer Martyrdom under Sapor, besides Obscure Individuals.

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Constantine writes to Sapor to stay the Persecution of the Christians.

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Eusebius and Theognis who at the Council of Nice had assented to the Writings of Arius restored to their own Sees.

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On the Death of Alexander, Bishop of Alexandria, at his Suggestion, Athanasius receives the Throne; and an Account of his Youth; how he was a Self-Taught Priest, and beloved by Antony the Great.

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The Arians and Melitians confer Celebrity on Athanasius; concerning Eusebius, and his Request of Athanasius to admit Arius to Communion; concerning the Term “Consubstantial” Eusebius Pamphilus and Eustathius, Bishop of Antioch, create Tumults above all the rest.

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Synod of Antioch; Unjust Deposition of Eustathius; Euphronius receives the Throne; Constantine the Great writes to the Synod and to Eusebius Pamphilus, who refuses the Bishopric of Antioch.

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Concerning Maximus, who succeeded Macarius in the See of Jerusalem.

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The Melitians and the Arians agree in Sentiment; Eusebius and Theognis endeavor to inflame anew the Disease of Arius.

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The Vain Machinations of the Arians and Melitians against St. Athanasius.

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Calumny respecting St. Athanasius and the Hand of Arsenius.

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Some Indian Nations received Christianity at that Time through the Instrumentality of Two Captives, Frumentius and Edesius.

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Council of Tyre; Illegal Deposition of St. Athanasius.

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Erection of a Temple by Constantine the Great at Golgotha, in Jerusalem; its Dedication.

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Concerning the Presbyter by whom Constantine was persuaded to recall Arius and Euzoïus from Exile; the Tractate concerning his Possibly Pious Faith, and how Arius was again received by the Synod assembled at Jerusalem.

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Letter from the Emperor Constantine to the Synod of Tyre, and Exile of St. Athanasius through the Machination of the Arian Faction.

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Alexander, Bishop of Constantinople; his Refusal to receive Arius into Communion; Arius is burst asunder while seeking Natural Relief.

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Account given by the Great Athanasius of the Death of Arius.

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Events which occurred in Alexandria after the Death of Arius. Letter of Constantine the Great to the Church there.

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Constantine enacts a Law against all Heresies, and prohibits the People from holding Church in any place but the Catholic Church, and thus the Greater Number of Heresies disappear. The Arians who sided with Eusebius of Nicomedia, artfully attempted to obliterate the Term “Consubstantial.”

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Marcellus Bishop of Ancyra; his Heresy and Deposition.

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Death of Constantine the Great; he died after Baptism and was buried in the Temple of the Holy Apostles.

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