Tag: Rome

Holy Stairs Climbed By Jesus?

Randolph Jason

Holy Stairs Climbed By Jesus?By Phoebe Natanson for ABC News After over a year of restoration, the 28 marble steps were unveiled Thursday. After more than a year of restoration, the 28 steps that make up the “Scala Sancta,” or Holy Stairs, of the Pontifical Shrine in Rome were unveiled on Thursday, just in time for the thousands of people who will flock to Rome and the Vatican for Easter. The steps were believed to be part of Pontius Pilate’s palace in Jerusalem and are the same steps Jesus climbed before being tried…

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Debunking the Most Common Myths About the Byzantine Empire

Randolph Jason

Debunking the Most Common Myths About the Byzantine Empire by Pavel Kuzenkov for Russia-Insider Myths and misconceptions about the Byzantine Empire (of which Russia is believed by many to be the spiritual and political successor) abound. According to these prejudiced views, it was a backward and underdeveloped state, an Eastern despotism with a dead, ossified culture. On May 29, 2018 (the commemoration of the fall of Constantinople according to the old calendar), Pravoslavie.ru published a talk about these myths related to the Byzantine Empire with Pavel Kuzenkov, Ph.D in History, teacher of…

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