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The Easter Effect: What Happened To That ‘Gaggle Of Nobodies’ in the First Century A.D.

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‘The Incredulity of St. Thomas’ by Caravaggio. (Source)

By George Weigel

The first Christians were baffled by what they called ‘the Resurrection.’ Their struggle to understand it brought about astonishing success for their faith.

In the year 312, just before his victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge won him the undisputed leadership of the Roman Empire, Constantine the Great had a heavenly vision of Christian symbols. That augury led him, a year later, to end all legal sanctions on the public profession of Christianity.

Or so a pious tradition has it.

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