Did I miss something, or is this never adequately explained? Are we simply supposed to think that Christian missionaries from the 5th Century Byzantine Empire made it that that far south into Africa, and that the church is the first evidence of their presence there to ever be uncovered?
shareStretching my memory here, but I got the idea that the rumor had spread that "Satan fell to earth" on that spot. Therefore the Church sent an expeditionary force to "seal" the spot, build a church over it, and strategically place those special downward-pointing angelic statues inside.
sharebut I got the idea that the rumor had spread that "Satan fell to earth" on that spot.