Fighting Fire with Fire: Saint Tounom, the Split Column, and the Fire We Quarrel Over at Christ’s Tomb
A reflection on the Holy Fire of 1579, the making of an anti-Armenian legend, and the hard work of ecumenical memory “One is the true God, Jesus Christ; one is the true faith, that of the Orthodox Christians!” —The Cry of the Orthodox Arabs at the Split Column, 1579 (as retold by the monk Parthenius,…