A not walled city under
a black inscription. An isolated building with a columnated plaza
in front of it might represent the renowed St. George shrine.
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She admired the ruins of Dor,
a city once powerful, and Strato's Tower, which King Herod of
Judaea had named Caesarea in honour of Caesar Au-gustus: in this
city she saw the House of Cornelius which is a Christian church,
the cells of Philip, and the chamber of the four virgins who
prophesied. Then she came to Antipatris, a small half-ruined
town which Herod had named after his father; and to Lydda, renamed
Diospolis, famous because of the resurrection of Dorcas and the
cure of Aeneas. Not far off she came to Arimathea, the village
of the Joseph who buried the Lord, and to Nob, which had once
been a city of priests, and was now a graveyard of the slain.
And then she came to Joppa, the harbour from which Jonah fled
and also, if I may be permitted to mentioning a story from one
of the poets, the place which witnessed Andromeda bound to the
rock. Then turning back, she reached Nico-polis, formerly called
Emmaus, where the Lord made himself known to Cleophas in the
breaking of bread, thus consecrating his house as a church. (Hieronymus,
Ep. 108 - Peregr. Paulae, 8) |
