The Feast of St. Barnabas
“Happy are they who fear the Lord * and have great delight in his commandments!”
Although it has in recent decades been embroiled in geopolitical drama between Greece and Turkey, at the end of the 1st century BC and the beginning of the 1st century AD1, the island of Cyprus was a haven for religious expression, which was a rarity elsewhere in the Mediterranean basin.
Gentiles tolerated Jews; Jews tolerated Gentiles. Other Mediterranea…