Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: NYer
No, no Adrian either. Too much like a girls (sic) name and it kinda sounds British, which when you think about it is kinda the same thing.

It's a safe bet that the writer didn't receive a classical education. Adrian is a form of Hadrian, the name of one of the Roman Empire's "five good emperors" and is a name frequently found among early Christian churchmen.

19 posted on 02/23/2013 5:46:18 PM PST by Fiji Hill
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: Fiji Hill

Hadrian’s mausoleum is a large round structure near the Tiber, on the same side as the Vatican. The Renaissance popes used it as a fortress and had an underground passageway so they could get there from St. Peter’s in an emergency.


24 posted on 02/23/2013 5:51:18 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies ]

To: Fiji Hill

The Emperor Hadrian was an anti-Semitic fag.

“The term Five Good Emperors was coined by the political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli in 1503.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerva%E2%80%93Antonine_dynasty#Five_Good_Emperors


29 posted on 02/23/2013 6:23:44 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies ]

To: Fiji Hill
Adrian is a form of Hadrian, the name of one of the Roman Empire's "five good emperors" and is a name frequently found among early Christian churchmen.

Seeing as how Hadrian (rot his bones!) came about as close to extirpating Judaism from the earth as has ever been done by anyone, and his turning Jerusalem into a pagan Roman city, that certainly doesn't speak well of the early chrstians.

37 posted on 02/23/2013 7:01:51 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson