Crosses appear inside the Hagia Sophia

Orthodoxy and Hellenism ^ | September 30, 2011

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[Alas Babylon!]

Having a long passed relative who served in Siberia in the 1920’s—you’d be wrong. The US actually had troops fighting the communists and supporting the Whites. It was the Kaiser’s Germany who sent Lenin to Brest, not the Western Powers...

[annalex]

My granddad volunteered with Adm. Kolchak. Where did your relative serve?

The Entente did intervene on the part of the Whites, but the help was mostly symbolic. The Russian generals remember how munitions and uniforms were late, few, or promised and never arrived. One French regiment volunteered to go to battle in Siberia and was stopped by Janin. Further, the allied Powers supported fevralist revolutionary structures they sympathized with, like the Social Revolutionaries but distrusted the monarchists, yet it is the monarchists that had the fighting spirit.

In the meanwhile the banking interests placed their bets on the Reds.

Yes, the entire Bolshevik revolution was a German black op.

[DeaconBenjamin]

Today "The City" refers only to Manhattan ~

Tell it to London.

[muawiyah]

OK, ‘Hey London ~ you’re not the only City these days” ~ but I think that refers to a central core with the greater stations of the Underground pegging it to the ground. Manhattan is an island.

[Shery]

We visited Hagia Sophia back in 1989. You could see parts of the crosses and Christian symbols coming through back then. Of course, you were told that it was strictly a Muslim worship place and we had to observe their rules for entering places of worship. No sleeveless shirts, slippers provided for you to wear over shoes, head covered for women, etc. It’s a beautiful place, but we enjoyed the fact that its Christian heritage could NOT be totally concealed or covered up! YAY, God!

[Alex Murphy]

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[Bellflower]

But even if they were frescoes covered with plaster, is a very strange fact that they are NOT visible to the naked eye, yet are captured in the camera lens! Then we have a paradox, perhaps it should be investigated ...

This is the most unusual thing about the crosses showing up. Just why do they show up on film better than with the naked eye is a very good question.

[annalex]

Well, Shery a few posts up says she saw the crosses, I presume with a naked eye, back in 1989.

It is possible to see more in a photograph in principle as a lens can have a higher resolution than an even healthy eye. I imagine so, — I don’t know that for a fact. Surely a telescopic lens can reveal more.