***When I said ‘capitol building’ I meant ‘capitol city’***
GWEN STEFANI GETS MARRIED AGAIN, THANKS TO SLOPPY, FAITHLESS FRANCISVATICAN
TRUMP LIFTS BAN ON TRAVEL FROM EU, UK, BRAZIL… BIDEN IMMEDIATELY REINSTATES IT
BILL BARR WAS ANOTHER PLANT
PUTIN, KING OF RUSSIA, DUNKS THREE TIMES, BLESSING HIMSELF IN THE FREEZING WATER TO MARK ORTHODOX EPIPHANY. IT’S ALL JUST A TRICK, RIGHT?
FRAUDULENT BIDEN CHOOSES THAT PENNSYLVANIA TRANNY TO BE ASST. SEC. OF ‘HEALTH’
WITH SEVERAL THOUSAND BISHOPS, CRUXMAG CELEBRATES THE TEN DEAD IN A WEEK THEY CAN THEN BLAME ON THEIR BLESSED VIRUS
NCREPORTER, SNAKE-LIKE FR. ED. BECK, CELEBRATE EVIL, UPCOMING FRANCISMONSTERS: JOE BIDEN’S VERY CATHOLIC CABINET!
QUEBEC CURFEW, DAY 8
AMAZING POLLY: I TRULY BELIEVE THAT THIS Q PLAN IS ON.
RUNNING SCARED
IN ONE OF HIS LAST ACTS AS PRESIDENT, TRUMP AGAIN MAKES ANNIVERSARY OF ROE ‘SANCTITY OF LIFE DAY’
KATIE COURIC: TRUMP SUPPORTERS NEED TO BE “DEPROGRAMMED”
THE ARCHBISHOP OF TOLEDO AND PRIMATE OF SPAIN, MSGR. FRANCISCO CERRO CHAVES, ACCUSES THE SPANISH LEFT-WING GOVERNMENT OF “TOTALITARIAN” ACTION
DO YOU REALLY WANT TO GET THAT JAB?
JOE SCHEIDLER – REQUIESCAT IN PACE
SCAMDEMIC: SELFISH BABY-BOOMERS COWER IN FEAR. WHAT A LIFE WITHOUT CHRIST LEADS TO!
‘INAUGURATION’ OF FRAUDULENT NAZI PRESIDENT, WE’VE BEEN HERE BEFORE
“Seditious, thieving murderers…” Yes, sadly, it’s deja vu.
As a good example, we can revisit yesterday’s Update. Choosing Telemachus as a saintly intercessor fit for our time becomes all the more insightful the more we husk the rinds of late Roman history. Perhaps readers will agree that his life and times evoke such notables as Vigano and Trump, and of course creatures of the Swamp.
Even though a Classics major, I had never heard of Telemachus. But I did know about Honorius, Western Roman emperor and son of emperor (Saint) Theodocius who in 380 A.D. had made Christianity the sole authorized religion of both the Eastern (Byzantine) and Western (Roman) world, closing all pagan temples, outlawing all pagan cult worship, even the Olympics. United in religion, the two halves of the Empire differed enormously: the East in peace due to unlimited gold and silver deposits, silk trade, and huge demographic tax base; the West rife with treasonous military, conciliatory rulers, civil wars, barbarian invasions and usurpation, plagues, looting, bankruptcy.
One miracle, however, during the doomed reign of Honorius was his successfully averting the siege and sack of Rome by Alaric and the Visigoths. Honorius paraded through the capital in magnificent triumph (destined to be his, and Rome’s, last hurrah) with clamorous, ecstatic, overexcited citizens cheering everywhere. Afterward, as was still customary in Rome on celebratory occasions, all attended a gladiator show at the Colosseum.
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs recounts how Telemachus, an Eastern Christian monk on pilgrimage, leaped into the arena and attempted to disengage two combatants in a death match. Condemning the cruelty of shedding innocent blood, Telemachus then addressed the Roman assembly of thousands: “Do not repay God’s mercy for having turned away the swords of your enemies by murdering each other!” He also told them to stop worshipping idols [gladiators held to be amazingly godlike in their strength and skill].
Angry shouts drowned his voice: “This is no place for preaching!–the old customs of Rome must be observed!–On, gladiators!” Telemachus stood firmly holding them apart, and trying to be heard. The crowd yelled: “Sedition! sedition! down with him!” (Quote) “The gladiators, enraged at the interference of an outsider with their chosen vocation, at once stabbed him to death. Stones, or whatever missiles came to hand, also rained down upon him from the furious people.” While such a death was shocking enough for Honorius to issue a universal ban on all gladiatorial combat from that day forward, it was also an ill omen of the fatal period when Roman European power would be forfeited to the barbarians.
Indeed, Alaric returned, this time successfully, to sack Rome in 410 A.D. Contemporaries and later historians enormously criticized and blamed Honorius, his army having been weakened, and his waiting indecisively for the enemy “to grow weary.” Insult to injury, traitors had opened Rome’s defenses, letting in the Visigoths to raze the city. During the next half-century, Rome was sacked three more times by the Vandals and others until the West collapsed and Ostrogoths crowned Odoacer King of Italy.