Posted on 08/09/2015 6:21:09 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
I would encourage all Americans to watch the Planned Parenthood videos and face the stark reality of a practice we are funding
In the year 402 A.D., a diminutive monk named “Telemachus,” then living in the hinterland of the Roman Empire, felt a call to leave his obscure monastery and visit the city of Rome.
He didn’t know why, but he believed he was following God’s leading. Upon entering the city, Telemachus was pushed along by the crowds into the Colosseum where gladiatorial contests were being held to celebrate the recent victory over the Gauls.
Telemachus had never witnessed a gladiator game, and was quickly appalled by the spectacle of men brutally killing each other to the amusement of the spectators. Telemachus could not help himself, and began to yell, “In The Name of Jesus Christ, Stop!” But nobody paid him any attention. He then jumped into the gladiator arena near the fighting gladiators and again yelled, “In The Name of Jesus Christ, Stop!”
Amen.
My first childhood memory from Sunday School was this story. I don’t know why, but it really grabbed my attention. My second memory would be the martyrdom of St Stephen. I’ve always had a fascination for martyrs.
Amen. We have been crying for it to stop for a while now. At least the subsequent horrors to baby killing are more fully exposed.
As hideous as it is.......it is finally being revealed.
The abortion industry has been freakishly clever in not allowing photos, videos, aftermath of abortion to leak out....
Till now!!!!!!!!!!!
“Upon entering the city, Telemachus was pushed along by the crowds into the Colosseum where gladiatorial contests were being held to celebrate the recent victory over the Gauls.”
While I totally agree with the point of the article, this “LT COL” is historically ignorant.
The Gauls ceased to exist post Julius Caesar’s victory over their tribes in 51 BC.
Perhaps he meant Franks? Or Alemanni?
HOW DARE anybody criticize infanticide and vivisection.
Well it helped me to do research about this saint. His feast day is on New Year’s Day. I think it was said he died in the year 401 AD. What was the surprised me was that there were still those types of fights in the Colosseum going on. I thought that they went away once the Roman Empire accepted Christianity.
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