Posted on 11/14/2015 4:39:48 AM PST by Kolokotronis
In 1227 Sultan Jalal al-Din of Khwarazm and his army of Turkmen attacked Georgia. On the first day of the battle the Georgian army valorously warded off the invaders as they were approaching Tbilisi. That night, however, a group of Persians who were living in Tbilisi secretly opened the gates and summoned the enemy army into the city. According to one manuscript in which this most terrible day in Georgian history was described: “Words are powerless to convey the destruction that the enemy wrought: tearing infants from their mothers’ breasts, they beat their heads against the bridge, watching as their eyes dropped from their skulls.…â€
A river of blood flowed through the city. The Turkmen castrated young children, raped women, and stabbed mothers to death over their children’s lifeless bodies. The whole city shuddered at the sound of wailing and lamentation. The river and streets of the city were filled with death.
The sultan ordered that the cupola of Sioni Cathedral be taken down and replaced by his vile throne. And at his command the icons of the Theotokos and our Savior were carried out of Sioni Cathedral and placed at the center of the bridge across the Mtkvari River. The invaders goaded the people to the bridge, ordering them to cross it and spit on the holy icons. Those who betrayed the Christian Faith and mocked the icons were spared their lives, while the Orthodox confessors were beheaded.
One hundred thousand Georgians sacrificed their lives to venerate the holy icons. One hundred thousand severed heads and headless bodies were carried by the bloody current down the Mtkvari River.
O ye thousands of stars, the chosen people guarding the Georgian Church with your golden wings, intercede for us always before the face of God!
Just as there are now traitors in America opening the gates for the advancing murderous hordes.
That’s just OLD stuff, right??
History, dry books—aaand boooring, to boot.
Nothing to sseee here—so cooperate, and move along now—OK??
No. Wrong.
We read all those martyr stories—the gruesome tortures, almost always ending in beheading. Perpetrated by the Romans, the Zoroastrians, and the Muhammadans.
No matter who perpetrates these murders, the story is almost always the same. It seems like propaganda rather than truth.
But now in the Near East and elsewhere—the very same stories are repeated in real life, right before our eyes!!!! So it’s all true after all.
Holy Martyrs of the Orthodox Church, pray to God for us!!!!
“That night, however, a group of Persians who were living in Tbilisi secretly opened the gates and summoned the enemy army into the city.”
Key consideration with significant implications for immigration, legal or illegal.
And the biggest traitor is named Barack Hussein Obama.
There's a lesson in there somewhere...
Thanks for posting and for the link (a slaughter I had not heard about). History BUMP!
““That night, however, a group of Persians who were living in Tbilisi secretly opened the gates and summoned the enemy army into the city.â€
Key consideration with significant implications for immigration, legal or illegal.”
They were, apparently, merchants engaged in trade...and of course, Mohammedans.
Keep this going.
Stories like this are forbidden in my Safe Space.
I did not know about this.
Thanks for posting it.
Note to self. Post guards on gates when beseiged by muslims. Double the guards if you have myslims living in your city.
But, now in the face of Islamic terror, we have the stealth enemy Hussein Obama deliberately dismantling our strength. Stupid, ignorant voters.
“That night, however, a group of Persians who were living in Tbilisi secretly opened the gates and summoned the enemy army into the city.”
So why are ‘Christian’ organizations falling over themselves to let in the next caliphate’s soldiers?
$$$
He is such a blowhard and wrong on every issue.
Here is something a bit more recent...and that Kolokotronis would appreciate....for others, the subtitles in English are timeless.
With reverence...the Souliot women and the dance of Zalongo
Makes you wonder what “safe space” college wussies found last night to hide from the Paris news.
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