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Pagan Family: No question has been more hotly debated by scholars of church architecture than the origin of the basilica. Some scholars trace it to pagan basilicas such as the Basilica Ulpia in Trajan's Forum and the Basilica Julia in the Forum Ro-manum, both in Rome. These buildings also were hall-like and were divided into a nave and side aisles. In the Basilica Ulpia, apses terminated the ends of the nave. But the pagan basilica served secular needs; it was commonly entered from the side, not from one end; and while the plans of some pagan basilicas do correspond in part to the Christian basilica, others, like the Basilica of Maxentius (also called the Basilica of Constantine) in the Roman Forum are quite different.
GREGORY THAUMATURGUS, tho-ma-tur'gas, Saint, Eastern Church Father of the 3d century. Gregory was born at Neocaesarea in Pontus about 213. He was the son of a wealthy pagan family and was originally named Theodore. The name Gregory was probably adopted at baptism.
I. Pagan Traces.— In pagan religioi generated from God's primitive revelat the human race, there is a common and c belief in the survival of human personality death; but the traces of a hope of a resurrection are not universal nor d: Many savage tribes witness to a crude be metempsychosis. Such theories of reincar and transmigration of souls may readily 1 tortions of a primitive revelation of the rection of the body.
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