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Chapter 6-The survival of the Desposyni  
     
1.
 Credible history is not without evidence that the Desposyni existed and indeed survived.
  
2.
 The ancient historian Julius Africanus who lived between CE 160 and CE 240 but whose works were largely burnt by the Christians long ago is quoted by Eusebius of Caesarea (275-339) of the same period as having wrote:
  
3.
 “Herod, who has no drop of Israelitish blood in his veins and was stung by the consciousness of his base origins, burnt the registers of their families…A few careful people had private records of their own, having either remembered the names or recovered them from copies, and took pride in preserving the memory of their aristocratic origin. These included the people…known as Desposynoi because of their relationship to the saviour’s family.”
  
4.
 Another quote from Eusebius is even more explicit: “There still survived of the Lord’s family the grandsons of Jude, who was said to be His Brother, humanly speaking. These were informed against as being of David’s line and brought before Domitian Caesar…Domitian asked them whether they were descended from David and they admitted it.”
  
5.
 From both quotes it can be implied that the Nazarene churches and blood descendents of Jesus still operating the Nazarene faith were still in existence at least until the 3rd Century.
  
6.
 There is a famous legend that Pope Sylvester in 318 CE met with a delegation of eight of the Desposynoi, the blood descendents of the family of Jesus in Rome and heard a statement of demand by them that: (1) The confirmation of Christian bishops of Jerusalem, Antioch, Ephesus and Alexandria be revoked; (2) that these bishoprics be conferred instead on members of the Desposynoi, descendents of Jesus’s family and the line of Judah; (3) that Christian churches “resume” sending money to the Desposyni Church in Jerusalem which was to be regarded as the Mother Church.

  
7.
 Pope Sylvester rejected their demands and this is said to have been the last meeting between the Church created by Paul (Christianity) and the Church created by Jesus and his disciples (Nazarenes/Gnostics). While this is the last official face to face meeting between the true Church of Jesus and the parasitic religion of Paul and the Sadducees, hard evidence exists that the Nazarenes as a faith still existed for several centuries later, albeit under different labels.
  
8.
 There is evidence in the 5th Century CE through the writings of Christian fanatic Epiphanius of the existence of the Nazarenes who he relentlessly attacked as “heretics”.
 
9.
 Of course, there is the incredibly strong evidence that Nazarene/Gnostic thought survived in Ireland, even after the invasion of Patrick up until the 11th Century systematic destruction of every cultural element of Irish history- the project zero by the Popes of Rome to wipe Ireland off the face of history and reduce it to a colony of slaves.
  
10.
 Then there are the Cathars of the South of France who persisted in living the life and teachings of the Nazarenes, only to be horribly and inhumanely tortured and murdered by the Sadducee Church of Christian Rome.
  

 
 
 

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