Posted on 01/01/2015 6:21:34 PM PST by millegan
So as we begin the new year, perhaps we can meditate on the courage of St. Telemachus. What are the injustices of our own day? And how might God be calling us to bring them to end, even if it means courageously sacrificing ourselves?
You guys go first.
Saint Telemachus ping
.....And there was plenty of that yesterday called college bowl games.
No biggie.
Thank-you for the excellent article. God Bless.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Telemachus
[snip] Although the site of Telemachus’ martyrdom is often given as being the Colosseum in Rome, Theodoret does not actually specify where it happened, saying merely that it happened in “the stadium”.
Later retellings of the story have differed from Theodoret’s in a number of details. Foxe’s Book of Martyrs claims that Telemachus was first stabbed to death by a gladiator, but that the sight of his death “turned the hearts of the people”...
There is also an alternate form of the story, in which Telemachus stood up in the amphitheatre and told the assembly to stop worshipping idols and offering sacrifices to the gods. Upon hearing this statement, the prefect of the city is said by this source to have ordered the gladiators to kill Telemachus, and they promptly did so. [/snip]
Gladiator games started out small, as part of the funeral rituals for the patricians early in the Roman Republic. It’s believed the Etruscans were the originators of the events that the Romans later adopted. For the early Romans the fights, which weren’t always to the death back then, were supposed to be a sort of morality play with the gladitors demonstrating strength, fortitude and fearlessness in the face of death and pain. Somewhere during their thousand-year history the Romans really went off the rails.
Yes, but these are being killed by a million leftist "Saint Pansys"...
“Somewhere during their thousand-year history the Romans really went off the rails”
Really, really off the rails. Now you have the wimpy Italians. Too lazy to work (even at making pizzas) and too lazy to have sex (see declining population).
“THESE GAMES ARE BEING DEGRADED BY PROFESSIONAL TRICKS TO STAY ALIVE!”-Livia in “I CLAUDIUS” addressing the gladiators.
Just curious, when did the Christian emperors order a stop to throwing condemned criminals to the lions?
I read about this in Tacitus years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidenae
Stadium disaster
In 27 AD, an apparently cheaply built wooden amphitheatre, constructed by an entrepreneur named Atilius, collapsed in Fidenae resulting in by far the worst stadium disaster in history with as many as 20,000 dead and wounded out of the total audience of 50,000.[5][6] The emperor Tiberius had banned gladiatoral games, it seems, and when the prohibition was lifted, the public had flocked to the earliest events, and so a large crowd was present when the stadium collapsed. The Roman Senate responded to the tragedy by banning people with a fortune of less than 400,000 sesterces from hosting gladiator shows, and also requiring that all amphitheatres to be built in the future be erected on a sound foundation, inspected and certified for soundness. The government also “banished” Atilius.[7]
I loved that show! The books “I, Claudius” and “Claudius the God” by Robert Graves were great too.
Nothing in Scripture allows for elevation of special people to "sainthood". It is a manmade creation to take eyes from Jesus' Work!
Those alleged saints are dead, Jim...
Saints are alive...
Collossians 1: 1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, 2 to the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colossae: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Suggestion, give God credit for everything good for no man is good.
Luke 18:19 and Mark 10:18 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
18 Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.
De Colores
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