a portrait of the artist as a young man (“the son of darkness and the athlete of hell.”)

the son of darkness and the athlete of hell.

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Pope Urban on Cyril Lucaris, the six-time Patriarch of Constantinople and one-time Patriarch of Alexandria, who in 1629 declared his belief in the basic tennets of Calvinism.

[via Strolling through Istanbul]

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