
St. Helena and the Finding of the True Cross of Christ
Catholic Saints
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Great Real Estate Tip From Our Lord
The first 10 bishops of Jerusalem were actually all Jewish Christians. In 132, there was another uprising that centered on an individual named Simon Bar-Kosiba. Many Jews thought this was the Messiah who was going to liberate them at last from Rome. Unfortunately, they were mistaken. Hadrian didn't stop there by kicking the Jews out. He refounded the city as a kind of Greco-Roman city-state along with many other Hellenized Romanized cities in the area.
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