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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...

They were there for a long time waiting for a ship to get ready. Afterwards they sailed during the whole of the winter, from...

Embarking once more, they came to a city called Naples and remained there several days. It is the seat of an archbishop whose dignity...

After this, a priest who came from Spain to St. Benedict’s and stayed there asked permission of Abbot Petronax to go to Rome. When...

Willibald and Mother Church, like a hen that cherishes her offspring beneath her wings, won over many adoptive sons to the Lord, protecting them...

War with the Scyths (1087-90)I at the approach of spring Tzelgu (the supreme commander of the Scythian army) crossed the passes above the Danube...

II In this manner, then, the Scythians were driven out from the districts round Macedonia and Philippopolis, but they returned and encamped beside the...

The coronation of images is an example of an old and obvious symbolic sign of honour that has become a fixed rite. The Greek...