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Then they made for the town called Tiberias. It stands at the edge of the sea on which our Lord walked dry¬shod and where...

Accordingly he set to work, invested the town on all sides, and after breaking down one side of the walls, he entered with his...

For as often as they are seen in their pictorial representations, people who look at them are ardently lifted up to the memory and...

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,...