This beautiful melody was written by John Rutter for the hymn, "For the Beauty of the Earth." We sang the other version at Mass yesterday and it made me think of this.
"Slavery ended in medieval Europe only because the church extended its sacraments to all slaves and then managed to impose a ban on the enslavement of Christians (and of Jews). Within the context of medieval Europe, that prohibition was effectively a rule of universal abolition. "— Rodney Stark
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