Crete: Biblical Traditions, Churches and Monasteries :: Free Descriptive Essay About A Place

Crete Biblical Traditions, Churches and MonasteriesCrete has long been known for its isolation caused by the mountains and the seas As a result of its landscape, it has been always identified as independent.? (Dubin 241). However, the mountains and the seas could not keep away the various foreign powers, occupations, and the religious impact these forces suck in had on this beautiful island.? History has shown that its island form has not kept Crete in effect(p) from outside forces In fact, it is often considered to be a microcosm of a continent.? meet like a mini-continent, Crete has a diverse religious history that is tranquil and ever changing with hundreds of years and layers of religious history.??Crete has always been steeped with religious importance, oddly to the western world.? In fact, it was here in Crete where many believed that Zeus (the roman type god) was born and raised. (Psilakis 7) The caves in Crete are not only famous for the brethren who wealthy person mad e Christian dwelling, but also for being where the mythical gods lived as well.? Crete was also very important in archean Christianity The Apostle Paul just closely 64 CE (during his third apostolic trip) visited Crete. ( Theocharis, Detorakis) Paul later entrusted Titus to wangle the duty of the Christianizing the island.? However, the church in Crete has experienced many internal and extraneous stresses on the church, much of it due to the friction of the island.? These tensions, however, have not impacted the religious strength and stamina of it island.? Crete is famous for their? ?Ten surmountable martyrs? who were martyred under persecution of Decious, Crete around 249-251 AD.( Theocharis, Detorakis)? So? famous and revered are these Cretians, that whenever the Byzantine wrote about the island of Crete, they were almost always mentioned.? The ?ten surmountable martyrs? are indicative of the strength, notoriety, and torments that the Cretian church and its members have em bodied through history.HISTORY?Despite the enthusiastic missionaries of early Crete, it was not until the peace came (under the Pax Romana) that Christianity really flourished in Crete.? It was between the fifth and 7th centuries when the church could flourish under the prosperity of the Byzantine empires of Constantinople. (Tucker 527) It was during this meter that the Orthodox Church flourished. Unfortunately, later occupations and invasions have destroyed much of this geological era in Crete?s church history.?Much of the Crete?s church history, however, is deterrent example of constant change and not stagnancy.