neopagan

Updated: May 27, 2025

These he exhumed from their Greek grave and caused them to be deposited in a stone sarcophagus outside the cathedral of his building in Rimini. The Venetians, when they stole the body of S. Mark from Alexandria, were scarcely more pleased than was Sigismondo with the acquisition of this Father of the Neopagan faith.

John Addington Symonds - Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series