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Often appears with: conversion and faith · religious persecution and toleration · rejection of idolatry · trinitarian doctrine · theatre and performance · the nature and attributes of God · teaching rhetoric · sin and salvation · sacrifice and ritual · ritual church construction · renfusa · recovery of identity
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“Indeed, hardly a day passed by that these people did not sacrifice from three to four, and even five Indians, tearing the hearts out of their bodies, to present them to the idols and smear the blood on the walls of the temple.” Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Cast · vivid
“Therefore because he that knoweth least is fittest to ask questions, it is more reason, for the entertainment of the time, that ye ask me questions, than that I ask you.” Francis Bacon, New Atlantis · insight
Cortés orders destroyed idols and demands Christian conversion, condemning human sacrifice and “unnatural crimes,” but receives resistance from Sempoalla chiefs; he has the new priests and altar prepared, and mass/baptism follows for seven named women.
after the fashion of the country: they wore beautiful shifts, had golden chains about their necks, golden rings in their ears, and had other Indian females to wait upon them. When the fat cazique presented these, he said to Cortes, "*Tecle*, (which signifies sir, in their language,) these seven women are intended for your chief officers, and this my niece, who herself holds dominion over a country and a people, I ha…
Augustine explains that he went from Carthage to Rome for calmer student discipline, contrasting unruly behavior in Carthage with more regular order in Rome, which God used to redirect his life toward salvation.
the steps of a man are ordered by the Lord, and He shall dispose his way. Or how shall we obtain salvation, but from Thy hand, re-making what it made? Thou didst deal with me, that I should be persuaded to go to Rome, and to teach there rather, what I was teaching at Carthage. And how I was persuaded to this, I will not neglect to confess to Thee; because herein also the deepest recesses of Thy wisdom, and Thy most …
Augustine prays on how the former Roman idol-worshipper and rhetor Victorinus, once defended to the end, becomes ashamed and confesses Christ, first privately, then publicly, as Rome rejoices and the proud resent it.
worshipper of idols, and a partaker of the sacrilegious rites, to which almost all the nobility of Rome were given up, and had inspired the people with the love of Anubis, barking Deity, and all The monster Gods of every kind, who fought 'Gainst Neptune, Venus, and Minerva: whom Rome once conquered, now adored, all which the aged Victorinus had with thundering eloquence so many years defended;--he…
Constance reveals herself to her father, asks not to send her daughter again to heathen lands, and Alla and Constance are finally reunited with joy, while their lives continue in Christian practice.
gan their woe increase. I pray you all my labour to release, I may not tell all their woe till to-morrow, I am so weary for to speak of sorrow. But finally, when that the *sooth is wist,* *truth is known* That Alla guiltless was of all her woe, I trow an hundred times have they kiss’d, And such a bliss is there betwixt them two, That, save the joy that lasteth evermo’, There is none like, that any creatu…
Sigtrygg goes to recruit the vikings Ospak and Brodir off the Isle of Man for the Palm Sunday campaign, but their Christian heathen conflict turns on promises and secrecy as Ospak later converts.
So King Sigtrygg fared home to his mother, and told her how things stood. After that those brothers, Ospak and Brodir, talked together, and then Brodir told Ospak all that he and Sigtrygg had spoken of, and bade him fare to battle with him against King Brian, and said he set much store on his going. But Ospak said he would not fight against so good a king. Then they were both wroth, and sundered their band at once…
Pope Boniface writes to King Edwin to spread Christian doctrine, urging him to reject idols, temple superstition, and augury and to believe in the Trinity for salvation.
COPY OF THE LETTER OF THE MOST BLESSED AND APOSTOLIC POPE OF THE CHURCH OF THE CITY OF ROME, BONIFACE, ADDRESSED TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS EDWIN, KING OF THE ENGLISH. “_To the illustrious Edwin, king of the English, Bishop Boniface, the servant of the servants of God._ Although the power of the Supreme Deity cannot be expressed by the function of human speech, seeing that, by its own greatness, it so consists i…
In an interview after dinner, the governor says the island knows much of the world while remaining unknown, and he answers questions about Bensalem’s conversion by describing a miracle connected to Saint Bartholomew.
amongst ourselves; "That we were come into a land of angels, which did appear to us daily, and prevent us with comforts, which we thought not of, much less expected." The next day about ten of the clock, the Governor came to us again, and after salutations, said familiarly; "That he was come to visit us;" and called for a chair, and sat him down: and we, being some ten of us, (the rest were of the meaner sort, or el…