Researchers have used CT scans to 'digitally unroll' the foil and read the inscription for the first time since the 3rd century AD© LEZA
Researchers have used CT scans to 'digitally unroll' the foil and read the inscription for the first time since the 3rd century AD© LEZA
It doesn’t rewrite anything. It is interesting though. Hate how they called early Christianity a cult in the article.
Or it could not, in fact I am sure it won’t.
(In the name?) of Saint Titus.
Holy, holy, holy!
In the name of Jesus Christ, Son of God!
The Lord of the world
resists with [strengths?]
all attacks(?)/setbacks(?).
The God(?) grants
entry to well-being.
May this means of salvation(?) protect
the man who
surrenders himself to the will
of the Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God,
since before Jesus Christ
every knee bows: those in heaven, those on earth
and those
under the earth, and every tongue
confesses (Jesus Christ).
drink more oveltine.
Very interesting, thanks.
“Don’t forget to drink your Ovaltine”
Hope they run a DNA test on the owner!
Would be interesting to know where he came from and if he has any relatives!
‘Researchers consider him the “first Christian north of the Alps,” ‘
I hate to nitpick an interesting story, but wouldn’t it be more accurate to claim this as the “remains of one of the *earliest* Christians north of the alps”? It seems quite a big (and pretty baseless) leap to assert this to be the “first Christian” in Germania.
Amulet originally discovered near the Roemer Platz in the center of modern Frankfurt-am-Main. In the middle of the third century AD when it dates from, this would have been very much part of the Roman empire. The limes, or limits, of the empire were several kilometers north of modern Fft, in the Taunus hills, and the border ditches can still be seen in the woods there today. By 260 AD, the Romans had retreated back to the other side of the Rhein river, ceding this territory to Barbarians until 1945 when the Americans controlled it.
“At the time, Christianity was still spreading over Europe from its historical origin of Judaea in the Middle East.”
If we consider Paul as Apostle to the heathen, then Western Christianity certainly did not have its origin in Judea.
Breaking my silence on Free Republic of several years. I miss the Golden Years.
As a resident of several years of Mainz and about 9 years of the Frankfurt regions of Hesse and Rheinland Pfalz, I was moved by this article. How wonderful that such a man was among the Romans and the Proto Germans near the Legion’s headquarters in Mainz. I was fortunate to have the opportunity to live among all of this history and to learn that the seeds of Christianity was sowed along the banks of the Rhine.
