Apostolic Cryptography and the Formation of Ritual Architecture

Theophile Beaudoire, the renowned 19th-century French typographer, engraver, and font designer, illuminates a journey of approximately fifteen hundred years by unraveling the mysterious pages of Christian history. This work offers an in-depth look at Christian history, cryptography, and ritual architecture. It presents a study equipped with valuable information that will help in understanding the cryptographic symbols and their meanings that constitute Christian fine art during the persecutions that began in Asia Minor and continued in Africa and Rome.

Beaudoire explains that this art, known only to Christians in ancient times and containing esoteric meanings, has existed for centuries not only in churches but also in many different places such as rock tombs, temples, musical notes, signatures, medals, frescoes, stained glass, furniture, jewelry, costumes, coats of arms, books, sarcophagi, and shields.

During this technical translation, which requires deep knowledge from religious, architectural, philosophical, historical, mythological, and sociological perspectives, translator Fatma Canverdi Çevik meticulously worked in specialized fields such as literature, linguistics, architecture, printing, heraldry, and numismatics, aiming for readers to not only gain knowledge but also have an enjoyable reading experience on this journey.

This work, which will allow you to witness many events that took place in Asia Minor (present-day Turkey), a Roman province, and its surroundings, will enable you to once again understand what a valuable historical, religious, sociological, and architectural heritage the lands we live on possess. It shares many unknown truths with its readers, drawing on the observations, books, drawings, and testimonies of 19th-century travelers. In the author's words: "The person who owns this work will possess a huge treasure and a true museum of antiquity, occupying a tiny space in their home library."