Tender Mercies of Medieval Christianity
Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2019 8:47 pm
From a correspondent:
"During the reign of [Byzantine Emperor] Alexis II [Alexios Komnenos, A.D. 1180-1183] , the Latin inhabitants of Constantinople, who had lived in a quarter especially designed for their residence, were attacked and slaughtered without mercy, neither age nor sex being spared. Their houses were reduced to ashes, their clergy burnt in the churches, and their sick murdered in the hospitals.
Four thousand Roman Christians were sold into perpetual slavery to the Turks. In this horrible transaction the Greek priests and monks were active ringleaders, and they joined in chanting a Hymn of Thanksgiving to the Lord Jesus when the head of a Roman cardinal, the pope's legate, was severed from its body, fastened to a dog's tail, and dragged with savage mockery through the city." (Alexander Del Mar, "Middle Ages Revisited," London, 1899, pp. 243-244)
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He adds:
My dad was a Greek Orthodox and mom a Roman Catholic
They made a truce to ignore each other’s religious traditions. Lucky for me!
"During the reign of [Byzantine Emperor] Alexis II [Alexios Komnenos, A.D. 1180-1183] , the Latin inhabitants of Constantinople, who had lived in a quarter especially designed for their residence, were attacked and slaughtered without mercy, neither age nor sex being spared. Their houses were reduced to ashes, their clergy burnt in the churches, and their sick murdered in the hospitals.
Four thousand Roman Christians were sold into perpetual slavery to the Turks. In this horrible transaction the Greek priests and monks were active ringleaders, and they joined in chanting a Hymn of Thanksgiving to the Lord Jesus when the head of a Roman cardinal, the pope's legate, was severed from its body, fastened to a dog's tail, and dragged with savage mockery through the city." (Alexander Del Mar, "Middle Ages Revisited," London, 1899, pp. 243-244)
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He adds:
My dad was a Greek Orthodox and mom a Roman Catholic
They made a truce to ignore each other’s religious traditions. Lucky for me!