Emperor Julian of Rome

by Robert Green Ingersoll (pictured) THEY SAY that the Emperor Julian [AD 331-363] was an “apostate”; that he was once a Christian; that he fell from grace, and that in his last moments, throwing some of his own blood into the air, he cried out to Jesus Christ, “Galilean, thou hast…

by Madeline Clark AFTER SIXTEEN CENTURIES, the life and work of the Emperor Julian seem as close to us as yesterday, as real to us as today, and with good reason. Julian has appeared in history chiefly as “the Apostate” (one abandoning Christianity) — an epithet that has colored the…