In the Roman religion, a haruspex was a man trained to practice divination by the inspection of the entrails of sacrificed animals, especially the livers of sacrificed sheep; and in the interpretation of lightning strikes and other unusual omens. The plural is haruspices. The practice of haruspicy, the name for this kind of divination, was said to have originated among the ancient Etruscans. A bronze sculpture of a liver, complete with the name of regions marked on it assigned to various gods, was discovered in 1877 near Piacenza, in northern Italy, and h ...

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Christianity emerged in the 1st Century as one of many new religions in the Roman Empire and faced competition from other religions such as Mithraism. Early Christians were persecuted as early as 64 A.D. when Nero supposedly ordered large numbers of Christians executed in retaliation for the Great Fire of Rome. Christianity remained a minority religion in the empire for several centuries climaxing in the repression of Galerius in 303. Following Constantine the Great's victory on Milvian Bridge, which he attributed to a Christian omen he saw ...

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