Yuhanna b. Mansur b. Sargun (ca. 655–ca. 749 C.E.), better known as John of Damascus, lived through the cultural transition from Late Antiquity to Early Islam and thus offers an important window into the practice of Late Antique Christian faith in a changing cultural milieu.

Push it in until it catches.

The Churel, or woman dying in chold-birth, has been mentioned elsewhere.

Then why not stop for fellow-craters -- going to thy own father's house too, as we be, and knowen us so well?