Perhaps you learned in church that Peter was crucified upside down and that nearly all of the apostles were martyred. Ever wonder how you know that? Because of Eusibius!

Unlike Part 7, which was mundane, today's message is great!

I believe I have stumbled onto the origin of Valentine's Day, which it would seem has a nefarious past. After Valentine was rejected for the office of Bishop he became enraged and so he began his own cult.

This podcast covers the beginning of Book 4: 
Chapter 1 - New bishop successions (added to the spreadsheet)
Chapter 2 - The Jews Of Cyrene and and Egypt were possessed to attack the Greeks
Chapter 3 - Aristides wrote a defense of the faith to Adrian
Chapter 4 - New bishop successions Rome and Alexandria (added to the spreadsheet)
Chapter 5 - New bishop successions in Jerusalem (added to the spreadsheet)
Chapter 6 - The Jews were attacked by Rufus
Chapter 7 - The faith of Our Lord spreads across humanity / Carpocrates founds the gnostic heresy
Chapter 8 - Hegisippus and Justin documented a communication from Serenius Granianus to the Emperor 
Chapter 9 - The emperor Adrian relays the message to Minucius ordering the end to illigitimate Christian deaths 
Chapter 10 - Antonine the Pious succeeds Adrian as emperor (added to the spreadsheet)
Chapter 11 - The heresy of St. Valentine 

View the whole series on the Book Matrix at
https://www.thebookmatrix.com/2020/01/eusebius-ecclesiastical-hisory.html