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- Roman Emperor and nephew of Constantine; he restored paganism as the official religion of the Roman Empire and destroyed Christian temples but his decision was reversed after his death (331?-363)
How To Use Julian the Apostate In A Sentence
- He was martyred in 362 under Julian the Apostate.
- A soldier, martyred at Antioch, Jan. 353, with Bonosus, a fellow soldier, of the Herculean cohort; they were standard-bearers, and refused to remove the chrismon (monogram of Christ) from the standard, as had been ordered by Julian the Apostate. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
- Some years earlier, Julian the Apostate had recruited Franks as foederati to help defend the Rhine. Superversive: Gondor, Byzantium, and Feudalism
- Pagan Emperor Julian the Apostate bemoaned that Christianity's popularity spread primarily through its charitable works: "It is [the Christians'] philanthropy toward strangers, the care they take of the graves of the dead, and the affected sanctity with which they conduct their lives that have done [the] most to spread their atheism. Matt J. Rossano: The Christian Revolution
