It is estimated that over...
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It is estimated that over 25 million people died in Europe between 1347 and 1352. The
cause? The Black Plague. Originating in China, the plague was inadvertently carried on
ships that docked in Chinese ports. By the time those ships arrived at their destinations,
many of the sailors on board were dead.
It is now known that the plague was carried by fleas that jumped from rats to humans. Infected people carried the disease and spread it through contact with others. So fast did the disease spread, that Italian writer, Boccaccia, quipped that you "ate lunch with your friends and dinner with your ancestors in paradise."
The Black Plague illustrates in a tragic, yet less all encompassing way, just how sin and death can spread from one person to infect all others. The plague didn't kill everyone; sin does.
It is now known that the plague was carried by fleas that jumped from rats to humans. Infected people carried the disease and spread it through contact with others. So fast did the disease spread, that Italian writer, Boccaccia, quipped that you "ate lunch with your friends and dinner with your ancestors in paradise."
The Black Plague illustrates in a tragic, yet less all encompassing way, just how sin and death can spread from one person to infect all others. The plague didn't kill everyone; sin does.
