Paradise Lost Episode 5: The Man From Galilee

<p>“The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church” – Tertullian of Carthage</p> <p>By the time a child called Jeshua was born in a manger the Roman Empire had seen its share of cults… And they’d all fallen by the wayside. But the cult founded by that child, who grew into a carpenter from Galilee didn’t and despite the best efforts of several Roman Emperors, his followers, the Christians, would change the course of Roman, and indeed European, history. This is the story of the Christians, and how they flourished in spite of successive persecutions to become the Roman Empire’s largest religious minority by the end of the Crisis of the Third Century.</p> <p>Image: Ecce Homo by Antonio Ciseri, 1871, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons</p>