For it is Luke who presents the familiar tale of his birth: "And in those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed." (LK 2:1) Luke describes how Joseph and ...

I am rather fond of my native land and her robust and quirky republican traditions, but Jesus did not preach democracy nor ...

The leader begins: Our help is in the name of the Lord. In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius ...

The seventh conjunction occurred on Monday evening October 13th 2 BC. By this time, the astronomers were converting Daniel’s ...

This same decree was reissued every fifteen years ... Some, however (and this seems more likely), ascribe the institution of the Indiction to Augustus Caesar, three years before the birth of Christ.

Otherwise, most laws were handed down by royal decree. But those decrees traveled ... This all-powerful State would delight Caesar Augustus or Emperor Napoleon; to Christendom, it’s repugnant.

In 49 B.C. on the banks of the Rubicon, Julius Caesar faced a critical choice ... by Art Archive The Senate met again and passed a decree calling on the consuls to defend Rome against any attack.

The site was dated to the reign of Caesar Augustus, whose rule — which transformed ... the place of burial (was ) given by decree of the city council.” The word “Autrygoni” was used ...

Clinging to the side of a sheer granite cliff, in the shadow of Mount Solaro, 1,000 feet above the sea and the cruise-ship docks at Marina Grande, this superlative boutique-hotel is perhaps the ...

The Smashing Pumpkins frontman, 57, shares his daughter Philomena Clementine, 5½, and Augustus, 8½, with wife Mendel Corgan, who is currently expecting the couple's third baby. "This afternoon ...

For it is Luke who presents the familiar tale of his birth: "And in those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed." (LK 2:1) Luke describes how Joseph and ...