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Egyptian Belief, by Bonwick, page 283 states: “The early Catholic Christians were charged with being a sect of Sun-worshippers. The Emperor Hadrian could see no difference between them and the followers of the ancient Egyptian god Serapis, who was the Sun. In a letter to Consul Servianus, the Emperor says: “There are there [in Egypt] Christians [Catholics] who worship Serapis and devoted to Serapis are those who call themselves “Bishops of Christ.” [Emperor Constantine was not alone in his heathen Sun God worship. Anything and everything was worshiped except the one true God.]
The Oxford History of Byzantium 2002 Edited by Cyvial Mango pages 17-18 informs us that: “His (Constantine) identification with the Deity, initially Apollo-Helios, was expressed on his coins by his bust overlapping that of Sol Invictus,.. In the form that bore his name at Constantinople his statue, once more in guise of Helios, set up on his porphyry column, was the object of a public cult. No wonder that his personality has been variously interpreted.”
The Emperor Constantine Second Edition page 57 1996 ISBN 0-415-31937-4 written by Professor Hans A. Pohlsander. He is quoting Zosimus who lived in the sixth century about Constantine’s alleged very evil nature. “When all the power devolved on Constantine alone he no longer hid the evil nature that was within him, but allowed himself to do all things as he pleased....His son Crispus, who had been honored with the rank of Caesar, as previously mentioned, came under suspicion of being involved with his stepmother Fausta; Constantine destroyed him without any regard to the laws of nature. When Constantine’s mother Helena was disturbed by these events and was taking the loss of the young man very hard, Constantine, as if to console her, corrected one evil by an even greater evil; he ordered an unbearably hot bath to be prepared, had Fausta placed in it, and had her taken out only when she was dead.”
Constantine The Great The Man and His Times 1994 written by the Historian Michael Grant p. 135-136 “...(Catholic) Christianity and Sun-worship were easily and thoroughly entangled and merged. This was all too clear to Pope Leo I the Great (440- 61), who—aware, perhaps, that people at Constantinople had sacrificed to the statue of Constantine as if it stood for Sol (the sun god)—reprimanded his congregation for performing devotion to the Sun on the steps of St Peter’s before turning their backs to it and entering the Basilica to perform Christian worship there. Nearly a century earlier, as he no doubt also knew, when Julian the Apostate had reverted to the pagan religion, this sort of feeling made it easy for many to abandon Christianity in favor of solar monotheism. The bishop of Troy was an interesting case in point. He found it possible at that time, with a clear conscience, to switch from Christian to pagan belief because, even while holding Episcopal office, he had secretly continued to pray to the Sun.”
A History of Christianity by Paul Johnson 1976 p. 67: “Although Constantine claimed that he was the thirteenth Apostle, his was no sudden Damascus conversion. Indeed it is highly doubtful that he ever truly abandoned sun-worship. After his professed acceptance of Christianity, he built a triumphal arch to the sun god and in Constantinople set up a statue of the same sun god bearing his own features. He was finally deified after his death by official edict in the Empire, as were many Roman rulers.”
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