My beloved Christian brothers and sisters,
Man cannot meet with God with the aid of his own mind alone. The role of the Church is to serve as a hospital; it provides the therapy (therapeutic treatment) in order to enable man to accept with in the Holy Spirit, to meet God personally. The Apostles provided this therapy 2000 years ago and it could only be One of a kind “One Church, One Faith and One Baptism” (Ephesians 4, 5),because it was delivered to the Apostles at Pentecost as a REVELATION from God. As it turns out, Orthodox Christianity is as American as good oldapple pie! This is your very own unknown American Christian Heritage!
CHRISTIAN FINDINGS IN ANCIEND AMERICA (Connecticut)
They had arrived there 1000 years before Christopher Colombo!
In the silence of CockaponsetStateForest in South Connecticut near the village Guiulford you can find the most ancient Christian Church of South America that is masterly carved in stone. Proof that derives from the epigraphy on the Church, show that it was build 1500 years ago by Orthodox Christian monks that arrived from the Greek Byzantine who escaped by ship from North Africa during the invasion of the Vandals. There are many Greek cups drawn (in a shape of a bowl) that are surrounded with pure Christian symbols or the monogram of Christ, with baptistery, candle holders, a Bishop throne or chair, and a holy bema.
The first conclusion arrived is that we don’t only have to deal with some epigraphs, but with a very specific place of Orthodox Christian worship in ancient America hundreds of years before she was discovered in 1054 by Christopher Columbus!! These works of art identify with soma other findings that where found in 1926 in an oasis of Morocco in North Africa.
An enlightening manuscript.
There is an ancient manuscript that belongs to a monk that returned to his country after the defeat from the Vandals in the year 534 AD that explains the reasons of the journey of his fellow monks to North America. Hespecificallyrefers to the destruction from fire, the looting, and the final escape of the society to “the land where the sun sets” to Asg Sammal or to the land of the North traveling by many ships. There is a mention in the manuscript of a “North-West course from Morocco.
After studying the epigraphs, FrederickJ. Pohl who is a specialized researcher placed the arrival of the Monks in North America around the year 480 AD, which was a time of a lot of great new classifications in the North American continent. It is historically known that there where many Bishops that where officiating in North Africa in Tunisia and Karchidona up until 430 AD. It was a period of killing and looting by the Vandal heretic Arians who themselves where hunted down from the barbaric people of North Europe who took refuge in Africa.
The Connecticut findings
1. A sum of 96 holes or carvings with Christian symbols or monograms of Christ and His Mother Virgin Mary. Some of them have THE SHAPE OF A FISH (ΙΧΘΥΣ) which means “Jesus Christ Our God and Savior).
2. A candleholder with 14 holes for placing candles with the incision IC (Jesus Christ) with Byzantine letters. The base of the candleholder is made in a Greek Dorian order!
3. Another design on a cup bears the Byzantine letters MP and it means “Mother of God”
4. Two impressive baptisteries where also found one in a shape of an oblong and one in a shape of a flame (symbol of the Holy Spirit that is received during Baptism) with 9 holes for candles. Eight holes (candles) for the 8th day after crucifixion where Resurrection took place, and the 9th hole (candle) for the Eastern torch that symbolize Lord Jesus Christ.
5. There are also portrayals with water and fish that spill into the ocean that symbolizes the new-Baptized Christians that where known as “the little fish” that ascent from the waters of Eternal Life after Baptism.
6. There is a sculptured throne next to the baptistery along with a second throne that oversees the Bishops throne during Baptism.
The Church and all these findings, give a powerful testimony for the appearance of the Christian Orthodox Faith in America 1000 years before Christopher Colombo officially founded her. The Church and all these findings make the Christian Orthodox Faith a True and Rightful Heritage of the great American people.
This article was taken from the “Orthodox Heritage” magazine volume 2, issue 6, page 8-9.
God bless us all, Constantinos