However, the earlier references by Eusebius and Irenaeus indicate veneration of images and reported miracles associated with them as early as the 2nd century.

Regarding the arguments from silence about the scarcity of references to Josephus prior to Origen and Eusebius, Louis Feldman states that Josephus was ignored by early Christian writers before Origen because they were not sufficiently learned, and not sophisticated enough in historical matters.

Although mentioned in the New Testament gospels, there are no extant non-biblical references to Nazareth until around 200 AD, when Sextus Julius Africanus, cited by Eusebius ( Church History 1. 7. 14 ), speaks of “ Nazara ” as a village in " Judea " and locates it near an as-yet unidentified “ Cochaba .” In the same passage Africanus writes of desposunoi-relatives of Jesus-who he claims kept the records of their descent with great care.

One of the earliest references to preterism comes from Eusebius of Caesarea ( c. AD 263 – 339 ).

Eusebius of Caesarea references Saracens in his Ecclesiastical history, in which he narrates an account wherein Dionysus, Bishop of Alexandria mentions Saracens in a letter while describing the Roman emperor Decius ' persecution: " Many were, in the Arabian mountain, enslaved by the barbarous sarkenoi.

Later Western references, which condemn the work, such as Jerome and Decretum Gelasianum, traditionally connected to Pope Gelasius I, are apparently based upon the judgment of Eusebius, not upon a direct knowledge of the text.

Two possible patristic sources that may refer to eye witness encounters with Jesus are the early references of Papias and Quadratus, reported by Eusebius of Caesarea in the 4th century.

The later references to Quadratus in Jerome and the martyrologies are all based on Eusebius, or are arbitrary enlargements of his account.

Until 1878, our knowledge of Aristides was confined to some references in works by Eusebius of Caesarea and Saint Jerome.

The earliest surviving references to the gospel tradition are quoted by Eusebius ( lived c. 263 – 339 CE ), and different but related traditions appear in the works of Papias ( wrote during the first half of 2nd century CE ) and the works of Clement.

* There is conflicting information on the same regnal period from different versions of the same text ; the Egyptian historian Manetho's history of Egypt is only known by extensive references to it made by subsequent writers, such as Eusebius and Sextus Julius Africanus.

( Africanus, in Eusebius, PE X. 10 )

( Africanus, in Eusebius PE X. 10 )

( Africanus, in Eusebius PE X. 10 )

three short letters of Eusebius are printed in Migne, Pat. Lat., XII, 947-54 and X, 713-14.

His advisor in these affairs was Eusebius of Nicomedia, who had already at the Council of Nicea been the head of the Arian party, who also was made bishop of Constantinople.

He settled at Pergamum, where he numbered among his pupils Eusebius of Myndus, Maximus of Ephesus, and the emperor Julian.

Eusebius ' evidence for continuation of a church at Aelia Capitolina is confirmed by the Bordeaux Pilgrim.

Bede quoted his sources at length in his narrative, as Eusebius had done.

In his reply Eusebius not only regretted the whole controversy, but also stated that he would abide by the words of the Bible, according to which the bread and wine after the consecration become the body and blood of the Lord ( see transubstantiation ); if one asks how this can take place, the answer must be that it is not according to the order of nature but in accordance with the divine omnipotence ; at any rate one must be careful not to give offense to the plain Christian.

His successor at the see of Caesarea, Acacius, wrote a Life of Eusebius, but this work has been lost.

The information used to create the late-fourth-century Easter Letter, which declared accepted Christian writings, was probably based on the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius of Caesarea, wherein he uses the information passed on to him by Origen to create both his list at HE 3: 25 and Origen ’ s list at HE 6: 25.

Eusebius succeeded Agapius, as Bishop of Caesarea soon after 313 and played a prominent role at the Council of Nicaea in 325.

Eusebius prevailed and Eustathius was deposed at a synod in Antioch.

In the following year, he was again summoned before a synod in Tyre at which Eusebius of Caesarea presided.

Where there is a contemporary town at the site or nearby, Eusebius notes it in the corresponding entry.

As the historian Socrates Scholasticus said, at the opening of his history that was designed as a continuation of Eusebius, " Also in writing the life of Constantine, this same author has but slightly treated of matters regarding Arius, being more intent on the rhetorical finish of his composition and the praises of the emperor, than on an accurate statement of facts.

" The work was unfinished at Eusebius ' death.

After nearly being excommunicated for his heresy by Alexander of Alexandria, Eusebius submitted and agreed to the Nicene Creed at the First Council of Nicea in 325.

* Averil Cameron ( professor at King's College and Oxford ) and Stuart Hall ( historian and theologian ), in their recent translation of the Life of Constantine, point out that writers such as Burckhardt found it necessary to attack Eusebius in order to undermine the ideological legitimacy of the Habsburg empire, which based itself on the idea of Christian empire derived from Constantine, and that the most controversial letter in the Life has since been found among the papyri of Egypt.

59, 1990 ), Michael J. Hollerich ( assistant professor at the Jesuit Santa Clara University, California ) replies to Burckhardt's criticism of Eusebius, that " Eusebius has been an inviting target for students of the Constantinian era.

* Church History ( Eusebius ) ; The Life of Constantine ( Eusebius ), online at ccel. org.

* Eusebius of Caesarea at the Tertullian Project

Elsewhere in his Church History, Eusebius reports seeing what he took to be portraits of Jesus, Peter and Paul, and also mentions a bronze statue at Banias / Paneas, of which he wrote, " They say that this statue is an image of Jesus " ( H. E.

Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus was born at Stridon around 347.

Initially growing up in Bithynia, raised by his maternal grandmother, at the age of seven he was under the guardianship of Eusebius of Nicomedia, the semi-Arian Christian Bishop of Nicomedia, and taught by Mardonius, a Gothic eunuch, whom Julian wrote warmly of later.

Here should be mentioned, as an important contribution to the topography of Israel, his book De situ et nominibus locorum Hebraeorum, a translation with additions and some regrettable omissions of the Onomasticon of Eusebius.

* May 22 – Constantine the Great, first Christian Roman Emperor of the Western empire ( 312 – 324 ), and of the Roman Empire ( 324 – 337 ), dies in Achyron, near Nicomedia, at age 65 after he is baptized by Eusebius of Nicomedia.

Eusebius of Caesarea calls him " Bishop of Hierapolis " ( modern Pamukkale, Turkey ) which is 22 km from Laodicea and near Colossae ( see Col. 4: 12-13 ), in the Lycus river valley in Phrygia, Asia Minor, not to be confused with the Hierapolis of Syria.

Following on from the Syriac chroniclers of his homeland, who were writing in his lifetime under Arab rule in much the same fashion, as well as the Alexandrians Annianus and Panodorus ( monks who wrote near the beginning of the 5th century ), George used the chronological synchronic structures of Sextus Julius Africanus and Eusebius of Caesarea, arranging his events strictly in order of time, and naming them in the year which they happened.

Acacius of Beroea, a Syrian by birth, lived in a monastery near Antioch, and, for his active defense of the Church against Arianism, was made Bishop of Berroea in 378 AD, by Eusebius of Samosata.