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MAR THOMA CROSSES<br />
PROF. M. M. NINAN<br />
At Herculaneum, a cross was found in front of the prayer lectern<br />
“A small wooden cupboard, thirty six inches or so high and half as wide, found directly beneath a<br />
cross impression on the wall. The cupboard or prayer desk looks as if it was used for worship.<br />
Indeed, it bears a striking resemblance to the wooden chests common in Pompeii and<br />
Herculaneum, in which small household gods were housed. This Christian prayer desk was<br />
probably directly developed from the pagan wooden chest and furnishings.”<br />
Herculaneum House Furnitureby Ron Meacock.<br />
http://rabtessera.blogspot.com/2013/09/christian-cross-at-herculaneum-in-60-ad.html<br />
http://www.ermaktravel.com/Europe/Italy/herculaneum/house_of_the_bicentary_herculaneum.html<br />
Dr. Michael Green in his book "Evangelism in the Early Church" writes, "If this reconstruction is<br />
anywhere near the truth, it gives concrete attestation of the process which we know must have<br />
been going on at the time, the gradual infiltration of the middle and upper classes of Roman<br />
society by Christianity through the lives and words of slaves and freedmen. This is how that<br />
unique institution, the Christian home, began to make an impression on surrounding paganism."<br />
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