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| Adrianople early 19th Century |
In this great Day Europe is blessed as never before in its
history, for the Manifestation of God, the Lord of Hosts, spent five years of
His exiles within its borders, sending forth from His "remote prison"
[1] the first of those challenging, world-shaking addresses to the kings and
rulers, six of whom were European potentates. There is no authenticated record
of a Manifestation of God ever before setting foot in Europe.
- The Universal
House of Justice (From a message addressed to the friends gathered at the
International Conference in Dublin, 2 June 1982; ‘Messages from the Universal
House of Justice 1963-1986’)
[1] Baha'u'llah was banished to Adrianople (now Edirne,
Turkey), which He called the "remote prison".
