Monday, November 3, 2014

Pecs: beautiful Hungarian town

On our ultimate tour today we visited the  beautiful town of Pecs. The features we saw included a second-century Christian burial site from the timne of Roman rule under the present cathedral and a square with a mosque turned church turned mosque turned cathedral... well you get the idea. Plus a large statue of a horse designed by Davinci.

The burial site predated the use of a cross as a Christian symbol, bringing up the question of how it was so identified. Well they used a circular christogram in early Christianity.

The burial site, with circula s christogram:



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