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Article: Footsteps of Paul; The first century of Christianity Two thousand years after its inception, Christianity is practiced by more people than any of the world's other great religions. Often forgotten, though, are its earliest believers who found in Jesus' teachings a way to reconcile life in a hostile world.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- August 21, 1999
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1/3 High on the acropolis, the stark white temple of the Emperor Traianus of Rome still looks down on the green Caicus Valley and casts an imperious eye on the asklepion below. Modern archeologists are slowly unearthing the ancient healing center under its own rubble in the middle of the modern town of Bergama.
It's easy to visualize the footsteps of the sick along the stone-paved entrance. Though the stones now are rough and uneven, 2,000 years ago they were a shining paved walkway, 20 meters wide by 80 meters long threading between 15-meter-tall columns. At the entrance pagan doctors performed triage: Only those they thought they could heal were ...