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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ' be the first men among Gauls hasten hither. The Briton, ' separated from our world, if he have made any progress in ' religion, leaves the setting sun, and seeks a place known ' to him only by fame and the narratives of Scripture. Why ' mention the Armenians, the Persians, the nations of India ' and Ethiopia, and the adjoining land of Egypt (full of ' monks), Pontus and Cappadocia, Coele-Syria and Mesopo- ' tamia, and all the multitudes of the East ?' Such was the zeal for pilgrimage, only fifty years after Christianity was established as the State religion. The visit of Saint Helena took place just before the Council of Nicsea, and the letters of Constantino (as given in No. 15 of our series) mention only two chapels which she built? one on Olivet, where the footprints of Christ were shown, and one at Bethlehem, the oldest of existing orthodox churches, which Constantine completed and adorned. No contemporary author speaks of her finding the Holy Cross; and Eusebius says that, after Constantine had destroyed a temple of Venus, on what was afterwards regarded as the site of Calvary, he caused the earth to be removed to a great depth, when, 'contrary to all expectation, ' the Holy Sepulchre was found. He does not tell us how it was identified. The Holy Cross, however, was shown to pilgrims at least within twenty years of these events, for Cyril speaks of its wood as ' filling all the world;' ' distributed from hence ' piecemeal over all the earth.' To those who are acquainted with these facts as set forth in contemporary records, it must appear clear that, however honest the conviction, the evidence on which the site of the Holy Sepulchre was fixed by Constantine and Bishop Macarius was of the slightest, while the legend of St. Helena's ' invention' of the true Cross belong...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217346955 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217346952 |
| Weight | 1.54 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.06 In |
| List Price | $32.84 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 478 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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