walking the labyrinth?august 14, 2009?eastern christians today celebrate the martyrdom of st markellos, bishop of apamea in central syria. the bishop was an eloquent preacher and after hearing one of his sermons about the evils of ...
but we know that the city-state of bapamea/b in syria, although officially described as autonomous, was subject to a census (carried out, as the inscriptions show, under quirinius). the nabataean kingdom of petra, which minted its own ...
