in 29 A.D.,1 a population which had already 150 years earlier been an object of Roman interest and solicitude.2 It was among the Jewish colonies, no doubt, that Christianity first found a footing, and it is to Judaeo-Christian communities in the province—evangelised, it may be, by Silas—that the words of St. Peter’s First Epistle are addressed. The Cappadocian Church, Mother of Gothic and, in part, of Armenian Christianity, and illustrious in its learned and saintly sons—it produced in a single generation