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OLYMPIC TRIVIA

PAGAN BASTARDRY

istory is murky-as, generally as it was so long ago, but the word on the cobblestonestreet is that in AD 390, the Christian Emperor Theodosius massacred all the spectators in the Thessalonian circus as retaliation for a local uprising. Harsh! Saint Ambrose of Milan was having none of it so he threatened Theo with excommunication from the Catholic church – this was really bad. Theo didn't want to get the boot from Catholicism so he had a lot of penance to do

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