DYK 3rdC Roman soldiers paraded martyrs #SergiusAndBacchus & dressed in women’s clothes to mock them for their spiritual marriage? HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
Despite torture & the taunts of the crowd, the couple sang this to prepare themselves to join Christ in heaven:
There is also a Coptic church in Cairo, built in 4thC to honor #SergiusAndBacchus & the place where Joseph, Mary & the infant Jesus stopped to rest when they fled to Egypt. Another church built to honor them is in Istanbul, now a mosque. #QueerHistory
In this icon, #SergiusAndBacchus wear neck #torques as #soldiers. #Jesus appears in place of a “#MaidOfHonor,” “#bestman,” #goddess, or #god who also served as witnesses to #MixedSex #marriages. #HistSex
#DYK this is the iconostasis in the church of 4thC #GayHusbands, #saints & #martyrs, #SergiusandBacchus? It is a #Ukranian Orthodox church on the Piazza Della Madonna Dei Monti in Rome. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
In tribute to the growing hostility to #QueerSex, Voragine left out stories like those about #SergiusAndBacchus, patron saints of #GayMarriage. Within 300 yrs, #SameSex unions disappeared from Roman Catholic liturgies. Ghosts of the #HistSex still haunt. #QueerHistory
DYK this 7thC icon of 4thC #SameSex spouses, saints #SergiusAndBacchus? They wear neck torques as soldiers for Rome. Jesus appears as a witness to the marriage & churches still bear their name. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
DYK the #Catholic church cited its saints #SergiusAndBacchus as models for #GayMarriage during its first 1,000 years? You can read the complete history in John Boswell's “Same Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe”. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
One of them is on the Piazza Della Madonna Dei Monti in Rome It’s a #Ukranian Orthodox church,still dedicated to #SergiusAndBacchus, who were 4thC patron saints of #GayMarriage! Beautiful. Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt.
DYK for it's first 1,000 years, the Catholic church cited Roman soldiers #SergiusAndBacchus in liturgies for #SameSex unions? Today, Eastern Orthodox churches still stand to honor them. #GayMarriage has a long history.
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DYK #SergiusAndBacchus were #QueerSaints & martyrs as well as 4thC #GayHusbands? They wear neck torques like other soldiers. Jesus appears between them as witness to their #GayMarriage.
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Christian views on sex, especially #QueerSex, got very negative, but in their first 900 years, Catholics built churches to #SergiusAndBacchus & had rituals & contracts for "#SameSex unions", adding love to mixed-sex marriage considerations such as property & inheritance.
DYK there were #GayMarriages in the early church? In this icon, Husbands, martyrs, & saints, #SergiusAndBacchus, wore neck torques like other soldiers. Jesus appears between them as witness. Blog4 Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #doctrine
It is a prayer for making “brothers” & invokes the martyrs #SergiusAndBacchus. We know that 7 other versions appeared in Europe & that churches used them well into the 16thC. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #LGBTI #QueerHistory #QueerHistoryMonth
DYK this 7thC icon of 4thC #SameSex spouses, saints #SergiusAndBacchus? They wear neck torques as soldiers for Rome. Jesus appears as a witness to the marriage & churches still bear their name. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
Christian views on sex, especially #QueerSex, got very negative, but in their first 900 years, Catholics built churches to #SergiusAndBacchus & had rituals & contracts for "#SameSex unions", adding love to mixed-sex marriage considerations such as property & inheritance.
DYK there were #GayMarriages in the early church? In this icon, Husbands, martyrs, & saints, #SergiusAndBacchus, wore neck torques like other soldiers. Jesus appears between them as witness. Blog4 Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #doctrine
DYK early Christians devised commitment ceremonies for same-sex couples? Mixed-sex marriage existed to satisfy the loveless need to pass property down family lines. Devout Christians easily idealized same-sex unions, like that of #SergiusAndBacchus, about love, not property.
On vacation in Italy, on the Piazza Della Madonna Dei Monti in Rome, I bumped into a #Ukranian Orthodox church dedicated to #SergiusAndBacchus, 4thC patron saints of #GayMarriage! Beautiful. Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
“and in the mode of faith, thou who didst consider thy saints & martyrs #SergiusAndBacchus worthy to be united, bless thy servants, N. & N. joined not by nature ... But [grant them] to love each other & to remain unhated & without scandal all the days of their lives,
#Adelphopoiesis #SãoSérgio #SãoBaco #SérgioeBaco #SergiusAndBacchus #JohnBoswell
Androfilia Sagrada: #Adelfopoiese, a cerimônia de união entre homens na Idade Média
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There is still a 4thC Coptic church in Cairo honoring #SergiusAndBacchus, a #Ukranian Orthodox church to them in Piazza Della Madonna Dei Monti in Rome, & another in Istanbul, which is now a mosque. #HappyPride #QueerHistory
DYK there were #GayMarriages in the early church? In this icon, #GayHusbands & #saints, #SergiusAndBacchus, wore neck torques like other soldiers. #Jesus appears between them as witness. Blog4 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #doctrine #HistSex
DYK 3rdC Roman soldiers paraded martyrs #SergiusAndBacchus & dressed in women’s clothes to mock them for their spiritual marriage? HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
Despite torture & the taunts of the crowd, the couple sang this to prepare themselves to join Christ in heaven:
DYK this 7thC icon of 4thC #SameSex spouses, saints #SergiusAndBacchus? They wear neck torques as soldiers for Rome. Jesus appears as a witness to the marriage & churches still bear their name. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
There is also a Coptic church in Cairo, built in 4thC to honor #SergiusAndBacchus & the place where Joseph, Mary & the infant Jesus stopped to rest when they fled to Egypt. Another church built to honor them is in Istanbul, now a mosque. #QueerHistory
In this icon, #SergiusAndBacchus wear neck #torques as #soldiers. #Jesus appears in place of a “#MaidOfHonor,” “best man,” goddess, or god who also served as witnesses to #MixedSex #marriages. #HistSex
#DYK this is the iconostasis in the church of 4thC #GayHusbands, #saints & #martyrs, #SergiusandBacchus? It is a #Ukranian Orthodox church on the Piazza Della Madonna Dei Monti in Rome. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
A church was built in 4thC Egypt to honor #SergiusAndBacchus & the place where Joseph, Mary & the infant Jesus stopped to rest when they fled Israel is still there. Another is in Piazza Della Madonna Dei Monti in Rome. One in Istanbul, is now a mosque.
DYK there were #GayMarriages in the early church? In this icon, Husbands, martyrs, & saints, #SergiusAndBacchus, wore neck torques like other soldiers. Jesus appears between them as witness. Blog4 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #doctrine #HistSex
In tribute to the growing hostility to #QueerSex, Voragine left out stories like those about #SergiusAndBacchus, patron saints of #GayMarriage. Within 300 yrs, #SameSex unions disappeared from Roman Catholic liturgies. Ghosts of the #HistSex still haunt. #QueerHistory
