{"id":4818,"date":"2010-08-26T17:21:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T17:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.transversalmedia.eu\/an-icon-from-st-catherines-monastery-on-mount\/"},"modified":"2010-08-26T17:21:04","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T17:21:04","slug":"an-icon-from-st-catherines-monastery-on-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theresearchpapers.org\/archive\/an-icon-from-st-catherines-monastery-on-mount\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4818 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/theresearchpapers.org\/archive\/an-icon-from-st-catherines-monastery-on-mount\/attachment\/4819\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/theresearchpapers.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tumblr_l7rs759xvL1qbkli6o1_500-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theresearchpapers.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tumblr_l7rs759xvL1qbkli6o1_500-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theresearchpapers.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tumblr_l7rs759xvL1qbkli6o1_500-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"255px\" data-loftocean-lazy-load-sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" data-loftocean-loading-image=\"on\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"article_main_text\">An icon from St. Catherine\u2019s monastery on  Mount Sinai showing\u00a0 two robed Christian saints getting   married. Their <em>pronubus<\/em> (official witness, or \u201cbest man\u201d) is none other  than Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article_main_text\">It is a standard Roman portrayal of  a  wedding. The difference: the two saints are both male, Fourth  Century Christian  martyrs, Saint Serge and Saint Bacchus, close friends  in the Roman army who  were purportedly singled out for their secret  adherence to Christianity before  being tortured and killed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article_main_text\">Their unity, considered romantic by  some  historians and depicted through the image of marriage at St.  Catherine\u2019s  monastery, was commemorated in many subsequent liturgies.  The late Yale  historian John Boswell found evidence for other Christian  same-sex marriage  ceremonies continuing even into the Eighteenth  Century.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article_main_text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.consortiumnews.com\/2010\/081810a.html\">via<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An icon from St. Catherine\u2019s monastery on Mount Sinai showing\u00a0 two robed Christian saints getting married. Their pronubus (official witness, or \u201cbest man\u201d) is none other than Jesus Christ. It is a standard Roman portrayal of a wedding. 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