IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH, BY THE POWER OF HIS CROSS, HIS BLOOD, AND HIS RESURRECTION, I TAKE AUTHORITY OVER ALL CURSES, HEXES, SPELLS, VOODOO PRACTICES, WITCHCRAFT ASSIGNMENTS, SATANIC RITUALS, INCANTATIONS AND EVIL WISHES THAT HAVE BEEN SENT MY WAY,
Strike them with spears, swords, bows, and javelins. Imagine you are hunting wild boars and make the faithless understand that they do not face irrational animals, but the descendants of Greeks and Romans who dominate the beasts.
Constantine XI Palaiologos
The last Emperor, 1453
“The homeland, Byzantium, had been taken by the Italians, and we migrated to Bithynia.”
This is what the scholar Nikephoros Blemmydes says regarding the fall of Constantinople to the Crusaders in 1204. Blemmydes was only 7 years old when he was forced to flee his birthplace.
🖼️ Image: The Apostle Paul depicted as a decorative initial in a Byzantine manuscript from the 13th century.