Historical setting: 563 C.E. Bragda There is a sense of apprehension in Nic as I have asked the Bragda librarian to turn to a particular passage in this one hundred year old copy of the Gospel of John. My own sense of its source was confirmed when I first saw it, but Nic isContinue reading “Post #12.7, Tuesday, September 15, 2020”
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Post #12.5, Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Historical setting: 563 CE, Bragda While we await the keeper of the books to make our appointment with the gospel, Nic is questioning the doorkeeper about every detail of the recent Council of Bragda in 561. He seems so delighted in the assurance that my lost memory might have lapsed only one year and aContinue reading “Post #12.5, Wednesday, September 9, 2020”
Post #12.4, Tuesday, September 8, 2020
Historical setting: 563 C.E. remembering a different time I know I wasn’t part of a procession of bishops. We are at the visitor’s desk at the basilica of Bracara, called Bragda now. Nic is urging that we study the visitor’s list from a Council held here only twenty months ago in 561. I knowContinue reading “Post #12.4, Tuesday, September 8, 2020”
Post #12.3, Thursday, September 3, 2020
Historical setting: Bragda, Galleacia, 563 C.E. Mountains and valleys make long rides of short views. The huge central edifice for Christian worship and bishop business is the largest building in the city spread in this valley, but it is nearly an hour’s ride zig-zagging down the hill from the inn onto these old city’sContinue reading “Post #12.3, Thursday, September 3, 2020”
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