Pets Wander the Streets
Let’s explore Tevkifhane Street, then move on to Kapiagzi and Ishakpapa Street from Utangap Street. As we walk downhill, we’ll reach Cankurtaran Square. We...
Theoderic’s visit to Rome in 500
Liberius served as praetorian prefect until Theoderic’s visit to Rome in 500, when he stepped down, but even then he always stayed in touch...
In all Theoderic’s years
Some of these families we know well enough to strike up an acquaintance, as the generations lead one into another for at least one...
The World That Might Have Been
We must enter Theoderic’s theater with appropriate reverence for the stately performance he will stage for us, and with keen-eyed skepticism, determined, as if...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 78
For by so much more frequently as they are seen in artistic representation, by so much more readily are men lifted up to the...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 77
We believe …life of the world to come. Amen.
We detest and anathematize Arius and all the sharers of his absurd opinion; also Macedonius and...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 76
Second Council of Nicea: Decree on Icons, 787.
Decree of Second Council of Nicea, 787
THE DECREE OF THE HOLY, GREAT, ECUMENICAL SYNOD, THE SECOND OF...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 75
Tarasius, the new Patriarch of Constantinople and a supporter of images, succeeded, after overcoming much difficulty, and especially distrust in Rome and the East,...
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 74
Monasteries were destroyed, made into barracks, or secularized. Lachanodraco, governor of the Thracian Theme, seems to have exceeded Copronymus in his ribaldry and injustice....
Apologia of St John Damascene Against those who Decry Holy Images Part 73
The Emperor, after the death of the Patriarch Anastasius (A.D. 753), summoned the bishops of his Empire to a great synod in the palace...
