Today is the feast day of Saint Moses the black. Here is a story from Wallis Budge’s translation of the Book of Paradise It has been cleaned up to easier to read for the web. In Christ, Fr. Athanasius St. Moses the Black source Now there was a certain man whose name was Moses, who was by race an Indian (i.e., an Ethiopian), and his flesh (i.e., skin) was black, and he was the slave of a man in high authority, and because of his evil deeds and thefts his master drove him out of his house; now it is said that he even went so far as [to commit] murder.
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