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An unpublished escape to Byzantium

November 24, 2025

The anonymous Calabrian refugee of the Greek Vatican Code 316 Cardinal Giovanni Mercati had reported in 1923 that the codex Vaticanus graecus 316 contained in last sheet, the 167v, the story, or rather its background, of an escape from Calabria of an anonymous Christian of the Orthodox faith, no

Praising the Stylite in southern Italy: Philagathos of Cerami on St Symeon of Cristian-Nicolae Gaspar, Central European University, Budapest

Middleages-Christianity Italo-greeks

December 29, 2019

This paper from www.geocities.com/serban_marin/gaspar2002.html is a very interesting contribution to the knowledge of a great italogreek author: Philagathos of Cerami. At this moment the edition of his homilies is frozen because the big work it demands: about a hundred is the number of manuscr

On Clerical Marriage and Paternity

Middleages-Christianity orthodoxy Italo-greeks

April 29, 2017

Question: Does life agree with nature or not? Answer: If life agrees with nature and never rejects it, also nature agrees with life. God said to mankind: Grow and multiply; therefore also priests since they are human beings, come to maturity owing to that blessing. If it lets them grow up