Carthage

Like the flannel thing, this is a happy accident.

But yeah, we went into an archaeological site in Carthage.

carthage tunisian at missouri and then we and like when we started shooting there because we wanted something like close to the the seaside and like just to have a field of depth that is interesting for for the photo shoot and the security came and thought genuinely thought that forbidden yeah forbidden yeah no you can't do that you know what you are doing and yeah and he thought he generally you know He generally thought we were shooting for a

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Oh, okay.

The second century church father, Tertullian, lived in Carthage, North Africa.

And when persecution of Christians was at its apex...

Because in those days, the blood of martyrs soaked the earth as believers were fed to the lions, beaten, whipped, sawed in half, put to death by sword, burned in the fire, and chained in prison.

There used to be 250 Catholic dioceses along North Africa.

St. Augustine of Hippo was from Carthage, but the Umayyad Muslims conquered North Africa in 10 years.

Because the Christians embrace that monasticism, like that St. Anthony in the desert.

If you're really Christian, you'll give away your money and live in a cave.

These heavy-duty pots were used for transporting goods such as olive oil and wine around the Mediterranean.

The ship that visited Tintagel may well have started from Turkey, perhaps pick up further cargoes, tableware, micaceous jars, across to the Peloponnese, pick up more amphora, and then to Carthage, where possibly it picked up North African olive oil amphora, plus the African tablewares, and from there, possibly through the Strait of Gibraltar to Tintagel.

The big containers, they're really the Coca-Cola tins of their period.

If that's turning up in Tintagel, these things don't last forever.

And that was from the album Tunis.

And this is a project that was born out of the sort of them collaborating with the festival simply just called Fest in Carthage in Tunis.

And this was made by taking sort of kind of samples of it and blending sort of his usual kind of folky style with sort of this music concrete style of manipulating sort of the samples taken from the festival and just blending them together.

And you can hear it very well on this track, just sort of how noisy and cluttered everything gets on it, just in one massive crescendo.

Some of them are references to what happened in scripture, and as Warfield mentioned, some of them are mentions of things that are alleged to have happened in the post-apostolic period.

And we know as a matter of history that there was attached, as I say, to baptism exorcism in Carthage, North Africa.

Think basically Tunisia, that part of the world, basically just right across the water from the southern tip of Italy.

Schoff says Cyprian in the Apostolic Constitutions mentioned the sign of the cross as part of the baptismal rite, so that would put us in the middle of the third century.

Augustine was a Berber from what's now Algeria.

Tertullian and Cyprian were from Carthage in modern Tunisia.

Athanasius was Egyptian.

The North African church produced Latin theology before Rome did.

He had received a good education as a youth at a school about twenty miles south of their hometown.

When Augustine was seventeen, he was sent to Carthage, in modern-day Tunisia, to study rhetoric.

Though part of the Roman Empire at that time, Carthage had its roots in Greek culture and had some of the best schools where many prominent figures in society were educated.

In Carthage, Augustine was searching for truth.

After reading Cicero's dialogue, Hortensius, his thirst for truth grew stronger.

Around this time, Augustine met a woman whom he lived with and had a child, despite his mother's strong warnings against fornication.

In Carthage, Augustine was introduced to the teachings of Mani, a man who claimed to be the final prophet in a line of prophets such as Buddha, Zoroaster, and Jesus.

Mani taught that there was a fundamental conflict between two opposite, co-eternal principles: light and darkness.

And then you just have all of these church fathers and important persons, Tertullian, you have Athanasius, you've got Bishop Alexander, you've got Bishop Peter.

All of them are either from Carthage, North Africa, or from Alexandria.

And these people led churches as early as the second and third century.

And so Christianity had been in Africa again, as far back as the first two or three years of the Jesus event.