Pliny the Younger, was the governor of Bithynia-Pontus (Roman province in Turkey) from 110 to 113 A.D. Pliny had written an official government documents (Epistulae X.96 ) that became known also as the Pliny Letters 10.96-97, to the Roman Emperor Trajan asking for the official Roman policy regarding how to govern and punish Christians. The Pliny Letters are historical fact, as well as an indirect reference to Jesus Christ by direct identification of His followers. Pliny the Younger admitted in these
This primary source analysis will focus on an account describing the hostile confrontation of French Huguenots unwillingly trapped inside a house by a Catholic Parisian mob on the night of 4 September 1557, Saint-Jacques street in Paris. The document titled ‘Affray in the rue Saint-Jacques, September 1557’ is a 1996 English translation by historian Robert J. Knecht (in the second edition of his compilation of sources French Renaissance Monarchy: Francis I and Henry II) of the French Calvinist theologian
Thallus Sextus - Julius Africanus 1. Jesus did exist. 2. Jesus was the founder of Christianity. 3. Jesus was worshipped by His followers. 4. Jesus was put to death by crucifixion. Lucian of Samosata also mentions Jesus in his book, The Death of Peregrinus, 165 A.D. [Peregrinus]was second only to that one whom they still worship today, the man in Palestine who was crucified because he brought this new form of initiation into the world… The Testimonium Flavianum has received disputation and
Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore was an English man who was born on August 8, 1605. He inherited the Province of Maryland after his father died and established and managed it from his own home in Europe. He made his brother the first governor of the colony and sent with him a set of instructions telling him how to govern Maryland which were called “Instructions to the Colonists by Lord Baltimore” and later became the basis of Maryland’s laws. His father wanted everyone in Maryland to have religious