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Georgia right? I’ve never been. I think my parents have before.
Can't remember his name
But when he was having mass, the natives came out of the woods
And all mimicked what the congregation was doing, making sign of the cross, kneeling etc
So the priest actually used the Lord's Prayer to teach them an alphabet. They didn't have any system of writing before
He just matched Latin alphabet with the sounds of their spoken language
That’s awesome.
I knew they were taught reading/writing by the settlers. From my understanding it was mostly the clergy that did it.
Father Francisco López de Mendoza Grajales
That was his name
I went to it three years ago, it was pretty awesome
It's in Florida btw, not Georgia
Oh. My bad lol.
Gah I should know that too
This is on my bucket list
It's usually referred to in the west as a Buddhist pagoda
Yeah it looks like it.
But it's well known in China for what it really is
Old catholic place?
I know Christianity spread to the east.
Interesting.
Actually it's Nestorian
Not familiar with that term.
There's a painting of the nativity on the walls inside
I've been to two Buddhist temples. They don't have nativity scenes.
Yeah. Wouldn’t make sense to have one.
Nestorians believed that there was a distinction between the human nature and divine nature of Jesus
Nestorius who came up with the idea was the Patriarch of Constantinople in the 5th century
So it was deemed heresy, and his followers moved eastward, as far as China, and built the church in the photo in 640 AD
Oh that’s cool.
The Tang Dynasty was cool with Christianity, but later dynasties persecuted it severely
Still do, don’t they?
Chinese that is.
Not since Mao died
It's a foregone conclusion to them that God exists, just like gravity
Always has been
Meaning they believe God exists?
Dunno if you could necessarily call them Christian, but the existence of God, Jesus, and Heaven are just as accepted as the rotation of the earth
Church however, isn't a big thing. The only legal churches are government agencies basically