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No pope before had seriously thought about taking Christianity into faraway pagan lands. When he was a young deacon, Gregory had seen some fairhaired AngloSaxon boys at a Roman slave market. When he was told they were AngloSaxon, he said, " They' re not Angles, they' re angels." Now he was keen to expand papal powers and convert new peoples. He dispatched a mission to England that was remarkably successful. At Christmas 597, 10, 000 Angles were baptised as Christians. Gregory' s missionary successes made Rome the Holy City of the West. Pilgrims from Europe' s northern territories came in their thousands. The religious gold rush was intensified by the everstronger belief in the sacred power of martyrs' tombs and relics. Guidebooks from the period ignore Rome' s classical monuments, directing visitors instead to Christian sites associated with the lives of the martyrs. At the church of St Lorenzo, pilgrims could see the actual grill on which St Lawrence was roasted. |
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zài cǐ zhī qián cóng wèi yǒu nǎ rèn jiào huáng rèn zhēn kǎo lǜ guò jiāng jī dū jiào chuán bō dào yáo yuǎn de chōng chì zhe yì jiào tú de guó tǔ shàng. dāng jiào huáng gé lǐ gāo lì hái shì yī míng nián qīng de zhí shì shí, tā céng zài luó mǎ de nú lì shì chǎng jiàn guò yī xiē bèi chōng zuò nú lì fàn mài de jīn sè ān gé lǔ sà kè xùn nán hái. dāng tā dé zhī zhèi xiē nán hái shì àng gé lǔ sà kè xùn rén shí, tā gǎn tàn dào:" tā men bú shì ān gé lǔ rén, tā men shì ān qí ér." nà shí gé lǐ gāo lì rè zhōng yú kuò zhāng jiào huáng de quán shì, jī jí xī nà xīn xìn tú, ràng tā men guī yī shàng dì. tā pài qiǎn le shǐ tuán qù yīng guó chuán jiào, qǔ de le xiǎn zhù chéng xiào. dào gāi nián shèng dàn jié shí, yǐ yǒu 5971 wàn ān gé lǔ rén shòu xǐ chéng wéi jī dū jiào tú. gé lǐ gāo lì jiào huáng shǒu xià de chuán jiào shì chéng gōng dì jiāng luó mǎ dǎ zào chéng xī fāng de shén shèng zhī chéng. chéng qiān shàng wàn de cháo shèng zhě cóng ōu zhōu běi bù lái dào luó mǎ. wèi le néng mó bài xùn dào zhě de fén mù hé xùn dào suǒ zài bìng cóng zhōng jí qǔ shén shèng lì liàng, cháo bài zhě de xìn niàn yù fā jiān dìng, zhè yǐn fā le yī chǎng zōng jiào cháo bài de kuáng cháo, qí kuáng rè chéng dù kān bǐ hòu shì de táo jīn rè. zhè gè shí hòu de luó mǎ lǚ xíng zhǐ nán lǐ bìng méi yǒu tí jí rèn hé luó mǎ chéng zhōng de míng shèng gǔ jī. zhǐ nán lǐ jì zǎi de shì jī dū jiào de shèng zhǐ yǐ jí yǔ gāi shèng zhǐ xiāng guān de xùn dào zhě de shēng píng. zài shèng láo lún zuǒ jiào táng lǐ cháo shèng zhě kě yǐ kàn dào dāng nián duì luò lǎng shèng shén shī yǐ kǎo xíng de kǎo jià. |