Light at the end of the tunnel – entering the tunnel

Blessed Bernard Tolomei Interceding for the Cessation of the Plague in Siena, oil on copper by Giuseppe Maria Crespi, c. 1735.

The first pestilence and the preceding famine had shaken the very foundation of the Byzantine empire. The Plague had killed millions of people all over the new Roman empire and Asia Minor, especially the city of Constantinople where 40% of the population was eradicated. The accuracy however is hard to gauge but the impact was […]

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