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Re: Ancinet Christian church found at Megiddo
2005.11.06 15:50
forwarded from Yuri A. Marano:
The churches preceding the Peace of the Church were not necessarily domus ecclesiae or clandestine places of worship, whose existence owes more to the Victorian writers than to the historical reality. The Acta purgationis Felicis and the Gesta apud Zenophilum, dating around 320 but collecting the official records of the trials of the Great Persecution, demonstrate that the Christian communities of Northern Africa of the end of the 3rd century possessed monumental cult buildings. See the volume by Y. Duval, "Chrétiens d'Afrique ŕ l'aube de la Paix Constantinienne" (Paris 2000).
Yuri A. Marano
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