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

After saying this and encouraging the others, he was the first to dash like a firebrand upon the Scythians and struck at the first...

How many souls were slain in the reservoir of Mamel! How many perished of hunger and thirst! How many priests and monks were massacred...

His notices of the Holy Places at Jerusalem, however, are of the highest interest, and some of them are of great archaeological value. Among...

I know that it may seem very bold on my part to write this book when there are so many holy priests capable of...

There before the cross they laid him. Then they began earnestly to implore God, the Maker of all things, to bring them consolation and...

The Comans returned, fully prepared for war with the Scythians, but not finding them and learning that they had come over the passes, occupied...

Next he began to inquire how he could put these ideas into effect so that he could despise and renounce the fleeting pleasures of...

Overcome by this unforeseen disaster, the father beat his breast for three days and nights with a sling-stone and then died. The interval of...

It would be cruel, and unchristian, he said, to deprive them of his protection and to leave them at the mercy of others. Then...