Apollonius of Tyana
Bishop Eusebus (left) of Caesarea,
an early Church historian, believed Apollonius to be
the AntiChrist. He wrote a counter-attack to the
Roman movement to set Apollonius up as a god.
The emperor Alexander Severus worshipped at a
private shrine with images of Orpheus, Abraham,
Jesus Christ and Apollonius of Tyana. Hierocles,
governor of Bithynia wrote a treatise, Lover of Truth,
which claimed that Apollonius was superior to Jesus.
Pagans were so impressed by Philostratus' Life of Apollonius
that many compared him to Jesus Christ. 
Right, Apollonius' vision at Ephesus
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