[markomalley]

FYI, Saint John the Forerunner at Stoudios was founded in 462. Hagia Sophia was constructed in 537.

Some pix:

This was an important house of studies for all of Eastern Christianity and was a center of Orthodoxy during the Iconoclastic heresy of the 8th Century...during the period of the Second Ecumenical Council at Nicea.

Also, interestingly, part of the head of John the Baptist was supposedly housed there from the 9th Century until it was taken to France during the 13th Century.

Sadly, it appears that the iconoclasts will win out this day.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Part IV. Of the Kingdom of Darkness
Chap. xlvii. Of the Benefit that proceedeth from such Darkness

[21] ...For from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretence of succsession to St. Peter, their whole hierarchy (or kingdom of darkness) may be compared not unfitly to the kingdom of fairies (that is, to the old wives' fables in England, concerning ghosts and spirits and the feats they play in the night). And if a man consider the original of this ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive that the Papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman empire sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. For so did the Papacy start out of the ruins of that heathen power.

[22] The language also which they use (both in the churches and in theirpublic acts) being Latin, which is not commonly used by any nationnow in the world, what is it but the ghost of the old Roman language?

[23] The fairies, in what nation soever they converse, have but one universal king, which some poets of ours call King Oberon; but the Scripture calls Beelzebub, prince of demons. The ecclesiastics likewise, in whose dominions soever they be found, acknowledge but one universal king, the Pope.

[a fool in paradise]

PING

[huldah1776]

Complacency loses and is spit out of His mouth.

[Luircin]

That’s sad.

Having said that, it’s a good thing that the Church Militant doesn’t need to be housed in buildings, and even better that the Church Triumphant will reign with Christ, no matter what the leftists and Muslims want to say.

[piytar]

Ya Muslimes are screwing with things WAY above your pay grade, let alone your understanding.

God will NOT be mocked.

Hey, laugh at me Muslimes, I won’t do anything. But I am not He whom you should be worried about.

/obviously not directed at the FReeper poster

[Kolokotronis]

Will its destruction be as complete as that wrought by the Latins in the 13th century?

[NYer]

Ping!

[trebb]

This was an important house of studies for all of Eastern Christianity and was a center of Orthodoxy during the Iconoclastic heresy of the 8th Century...during the period of the Second Ecumenical Council at Nicea. Also, interestingly, part of the head of John the Baptist was supposedly housed there from the 9th Century until it was taken to France during the 13th Century. Sadly, it appears that the iconoclasts will win out this day.

It's a building. Christianity does not reside in buildings - it resides in people's hearts and minds and souls. 20 For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”If the loss of a building (even old and historical in its uses) is considered a loss for Christianity, then Christianity can be taken from us by taking things away.