In the Year…165-180 A.D. (N)

Irvin, Dale T. and Scott W. Sunquist. History of the World Christian Movement, Volume I: Earliest Christianity to 1453. Marynoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2001.

Stark, Rodney. The Rise of Christianity. San Francisco: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1997 (pp. 83-94)

Saints Preserve Us (N)

Pope St. Fabian:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05742d.htm
and
http://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1-300/fabian-the-1st-martyr-under-decius-11629620.html

Pope St. Anterus (N)

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01553a.htm

Emperor Decius:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04666a.htm

True and False Martyrdom
http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=8633

New Testament Times (N)

Encyclopedia Britannica 2004- online edition:
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/303091/Jesus-Christ#toc222989

Our Salvation History: God’s Covenant with Noah (T)

See Genesis 9: 1-17