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Side Track episode 19, Julian, the Apostate. Welcome back to A-To- Z History Presents the History of the papacy podcast.

I'm Steve, your host for this podcast about the history of the popes of Rome and Christian Church.

This is an installment of our sidetrack episodes, where we take a closer look at topics and papal and church

history that are interesting, but somewhat tangential to the stories we tell in the main episodes.

The historian of Julian II, Emperor of Rome, may be slightly tangential to the history of the

popes of Rome, but it certainly is not tangential to the

overall history of Christianity during the later middle part of the 4th century AD.

There is absolutely nothing boring about the 4th century for the Roman Empire or Christianity.

Maybe you've heard the old saying, March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.

The fourth century came in like a lion, pretty much stayed that way the entire time and went out like a

lion. The third century had some lulls in the action, but not the fourth century, and the fifth

is going to keep us on our toes as well.

Julian was such a unique emperor in so many ways.

For one thing, he probably never should have been emperor in the first place.

Julian was born in 331 or 332 AD.

He was a grandchild of Constantius Cloris through the son of a half-brother of Constantine.

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