Talk:Telemachus (martyr)
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[edit] Folk tales as facts?
There is but one source to the tale about Telemachus -- Theodoret -- so there is no founding or base to the tale in this article, which is a false embroidery of the facts Theodoret reports. In fact, the story told here is contradicted by Theodoret all along the way.
Theodoret do not say it happened in the colosseum, do not give a date and says that Telemachus was killed by the spactators, not the gladiators, there is no mention of three days for the decree, etc.
In short, this one either should be corrected, or reassigned to the folk tales or myth section.
Ori 192.115.133.141 18:04, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
- Done. --82.47.248.116 17:44, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Material for merging
The following material is from Telemicus and looks like it should sit in this article. I don't know the subject well enough to do so, so copy it here for someone to pick up at some point.
Kcordina Talk 10:41, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
Telemicus by William Barclay tells the story of Telemicus, a monk who lived outside the city of Rome. He was a man of the country and lived a quiet life but something, maybe the call of God, brought him to Rome, which was for the most part considered a Christian city. Yet thousands of people still attended the games in the Coliseum watching the fights of the gladiators. Telemicus was carried along by the crowd to the Coliseum, where perhaps 80,000 people gathered, looking for the weekly bloodletting. Telemicus was horrified. "Are we not all men created in God's image? These who were fighting must stop." Telemicus left the stands, leaped from his seat, sprung to the arena, and thrust himself between the two gladiators. His word cried out "in the name of Christ stop this thing"! They cast him aside. He came back; he cried out again and again "in the name of Christ stop this thing" they cast him aside. He came back; they cast him aside "in the name of Christ stop this thing" . Finally, the commander's order rang out. A sword flashed and Telemicus was dead. A hush fell upon the people in the arena. Gradually, the people began to realize what had happened and slowly, one by one, they began to leave. A holy man had given his life to affirm the worth of every human being. The usual blood was not seen that day for something truly ramarkable had happened that day to the city of Rome, for there was never another gladiatorial contest held in Rome because one man, Telemicus.
