Jovinian A Story of the Early Days of Papal Rome
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Jovinian A Story of the Early Days of Papal Rome
                                            
                            By William Henry Giles Kingston
                            
                                11 May, 2020                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        The glorious sun rose in undimmed splendour on a morning in the early part of the fourth century over everlasting Rome, his rays glancing on countless temples, statues, columns, and towers, on long lines of aqueducts and other public edifices, and on
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                                                The glorious sun rose in undimmed splendour on a morning in the early part of the fourth century over everlasting Rome, his rays glancing on countless temples, statues, columns, and towers, on long lines of aqueducts and other public edifices, and on the proud mansions of the patricians which covered the slopes and crowned the summits of her seven hills. The populace were already astir, bent on keeping holiday, for a grand festival was about to be held in honour of Jupiter Optimus Maximus and his two associate divinities Juno and Minerva. The flamens, with their assistants, and the vestal virgin Less