In the City of the Dead underneath St. Peter’s Basilica, we saw the oldest Christian mosaics in the world. From the late second and early third centuries, the God of Ecstasy sarcophagus in Tomb Z and the “True Vine” in Mausoleum M are striking proof that the foundations of the Catholic Church are literally built on top of Dionysus, just as John’s Gospel tried to communicate with all those secret “symbols” and “language” ending in the True Drink that promises immortality. Who knows what kind of potion was consumed in the Vatican Necropolis before Constantine covered it up. But if it was
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