Two Miracles part 6
At last a low murmur ran through the crowd. The child with the evil spirit was being brought in, and “Zia” Batdra caught a...
Rabbi Akiva 2
Rabbi Akiva
The Rabbis tell us that once the Roman Government made a decree forbidding Israel to study the law. Thereupon Pappus, son of Yehudah,...
Maese Pfirez the Organist part 2
“But what`s that? They`ve left off. What`s that light? Torches! a litter! It`s the bishop himself! God preserve him in his office as many...
The Pious Lady and the Gray Friar part 1
Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549)
Marguerite d`Angouleme, daughter of the Due d`Angouleme and sister of Francois I, was the second wife of the King of Navarre,...
War with the Scyths part 18
Tzachas opened the conversation, addressing the other by name, and said, “I must tell you that I am the young man who many years...
John of Damascus part 14
The many cases of idolatry and various deflections from the Law which the prophets denounce are not, of course, cases in point. It is...
John of Damascus part 15
So also in “De bello Jud.”, 1. l, c. xxxiii (xxi), 2, he says: “It is unlawful to have in thetemple images or pictures...
John of Damascus part 16
At Palmyra is a Jewish funeral chamber painted throughout with winged female figures holding up round portraits, above is a picture, quite in the...
John of Damascus part 1
John of Damascus: In Defense of Icons, c. 730
The Iconoclastic controversy lasted from 726, when Emperor Leo III (717-741) began an attack on the...
John of Damascus part 17
The old pagan sarcophagi had been carved with figures of gods, garlands of flowers, and symbolic ornament; pagan cemeteries, rooms, and temples had been...
