St Eusebius

Eusebius grew up in a very strong Catholic and faithful family, his father died a martyr for the faith. The Church was still very new, as it had only been about 350 years since Jesus had died and rose from the dead, so things were very different from how they are now. After his father died, Eusebius moved to Rome so that he could serve the Church more. The people of Rome saw how much Eusebius did for their Church community and they asked him to be their bishop (because bishops back then were not chosen by the Pope as they are now). He did a wonderful job serving his people as bishop and he guided many priests that served with him, who later also became bishops. The Emperor of Rome, Constantinius, belonged to a group of Christians who did not believe that Jesus was God. This group, called the Arians, made life very difficult for the true Christians who believed the truth that Jesus was the Son of God. The Pope asked Bishop Eusebius to go and try to make peace between the true Christians and the Arians, but the Arians only wanted everybody to believe as they did. They made life very difficult for Bishop Eusebius and treated him very cruelly until Emperor Constantinius died. After this time Bishop Eusebius spent the rest of his life trying to help all the people of the Church to believe in the truth of the Gospel and not in the many wrong teachings that were being spread.