Sublime

Smyrna became a large and prosperous commercial center. The city was renowned for its loyalty to Rome and its ritual worship of the emperor. In 195 BC, almost three hundred years before the writing of Revelation, the people of Smyrna dedicated the world’s first temple to the goddess Roma. In AD 26, almost seventy years before John’s banishment,

For reflection: 2 Chronicles 15:8–15 Authority exercised with humility and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live. —from ”Membership,” The Weight of Glory

I am going to pray to St. Martin de Porres, the patron saint of mulattoes, for our cause in the factory. Because he is also invoked against rats, he will perhaps aid us in the office, too.

Earl Gerald,

In Greece, too, each gens had its chief; the inscriptions confirm this, and they show us that this chief generally bore the title of archon.225

Maria represents intertwining people groups, groups that must be confronted with the gospel.

a passagem de uma doutrina da salvação anônima e cega à promessa de que vamos ser salvos não apenas por uma pessoa, o Cristo, mas também enquanto pessoa.

The Rhineland, the haunt of the earliest known Cathars in 1143, was to receive the attentions of the first Inquisitor, Conrad of Marburg. Conrad was an extreme ascetic who brought a campaign of terror to the Rhineland with his two henchmen, Conrad Tors, a Dominican, and a one-eyed, one-handed layman called John. Almost everywhere they went, they

*The first King of the Milesians. The name is sometimes spelt