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On the very place where Christ was baptized and where they now baptize there stands a little wooden cross: a little stream of water...

The Emperor who was very adventurous and liked to be the first to start a battle, did not take into consideration the arguments of...

Antiochus Strategos: The Sack of Jerusalem (614)Byzantine law granted toleration to Jews , although there were occasional attempts at forced conversion , but there...

Inside there is the slab on which the body of our Lord lay, and on this slab flfteen lamps of gold burn day and...

The Emperor had advanced in front of his own army and stood sword in hand; with the other he held up as a standard...

On the contrary they destroyed persons of every age, massacred them like animals, cut them into pieces, mowed sundry of them down like cabbages,...

In the valley there is a church of our Lady andl the church is her tomb (not that her body lies at rest there,...

After praying there, they departed and care to a large town called Thecua: this is the place where the Holy Innocents were slaughtered by...

The remains of the church of St. George, who was said to have been born there, are still to be seen: they have been...

Then they travelled across a wide plain covered with Olive trees, and with them travelled an Ethiopian and his two camels, who led a...