Posted on 02/09/2007 10:44:51 AM PST by blam
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What year did the Roman occupation of the British Isles end?
While I appreciate the artistic quality of the pieces, exactly how old does a headstone have to be before someone can dig it up and put it into their collection? LOL
Honorius withdrew the legions in 410, I believe.
Fascinating.
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Thanks, I was wondering if there was an over lap between the Romans and the first missionaries. I guess not.
Thanks. Some wonderful history.
I just finished a small book, about David Livingstone, called "Trail Blazer for God". It is the story of a young Scotsman that, through his belief in God, overcame a poverty stricken childhood to bring Christianity, love, and medicine to Africa.
Too bad, those that come later, use God's gifts for their own interests.
Christians arrived with the Romans, but before the Catholic Church in Rome took hold across the continent, the Romans quit the British Isles and Christianity developed independently for nearly two hundred years in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland; becoming strongest in Ireland.
In the late fourth and early 5th centuries, Irish missionaries established monasteries and Churches in the British Isles (Britainia and Scotland, and Wales), while the "pagan" Angles (later "English") and Saxons were invading and becoming ascendant there. It was not until two hundred years later that the Church of Rome became very active in Britain and the now settled Angles and Saxons received a "full court press", for conversions, from the Vatican.
Some religious novelist ought to write a novel in which the independent Christian churches in the British Isles become the dominant faith there before any great attempt from the Vatican is mounted and after which such attempts from the Vatican do not succeed; leaving a fully independent Christian Church not centered in Rome or Constantinople, from the 5th Century on and long before the later reformation.
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A time when the Scots had stones.
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The stones with rounded tops don't look anything like Christian symbols to me.
A time when the Scots had stones."
Are you kidding? They are having a problem right now with Scots carrying knives and swords again--and using them in all sorts of altercations and gang fights.
A man who uses cold steel face to face with another guy has a lot of stones in my book.
Of course, if I'm a tourist without my trusty Glock and get in a bar argument and some guy pulls out a sword, he's a chicken---- SOB--but I'm out of there with wings on my feet anyway.
Just like when Long Shanks banned swords, they trained with sticks & stones. Today they ban guns, so the Scots fight with swords & knives. I guess that's progress?
I read in The Scotsman that the legislature is thinking about banning swords again. The more things change, the more they stay the same (in French it sounds more profound.)
The Anglo-Saxon and Irish invaders were pagans.
The Majestic Standing Stones Of Callanish
The Scotsman | 1-3-2006 | Caroline Wickham-Jones
Posted on 01/03/2006 2:03:14 PM EST by blam
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