The dove was used in a Christian story about a great flood over the entire world, in which Noah had to build a huge ark and bring with him a male and female of every kind of animal and wait for a sign of the flood to be over. Each day Noah sends out a white dove to search for land and one day it comes back carrying an olive branch (also another peace symbol.) This dove bringing back the olive branch not only showed that the world was free of the flood but it was ready to welcome back man kind.
Building a huge mosaic in a church 1500 years ago is something I can hardley imagine. Building something that in centuries to come people would look at, admire, and interprit (if the mosaic survived). I think it would also be a very spiritual feeling being the creater of something so holy on such hold ground. Also having such skill as to build a giant mosaic without the electrical and bennificial equitment we have today would take such skill, presition and time. I think its a mirical that the Higha Sofia was only built in only 5 years 10 moths and 4 days.
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