The Christmas when all the sodomites died
- Written by: Michael David Barbezat, Research Fellow, Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University
The Beast Acheron, 1475
Simon Marmion (Flemish, active 1450–1489)Getty MuseumThere is an obscure medieval legend that says once upon a time in Bethlehem, a child was born whose holiness was so great it required the slaughter of all the “sodomites” in the world.
Sodomites, the legend says, are so impure God did not want to share...





















