Lift high the cross

Lift high the cross,
the love of Christ proclaim
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coinage

In the legends of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, the waking sleepers reveal their strange happening by one of them trying to buy food with coins bearing an emperor who reigned decades earlier. Which was indeed a very common way of judging times -- archeologists date graves by the coins in them, in the eras where they are so lucky as to have them included in grave goods.

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