Translation:The Book of the Holy Places/1 - 4

THE THIRD BOOK Chapter of Constantinople, in the first of the city. Repeating the Arculf, Alexandria, he returned, he for some days in the island of Crete, lodged, and from it a desire for sailing to Constantinople, in which he abode for some months had elapsed. Being without a doubt is the metropolis of the Roman Empire, surrounded by sea on all sides, except the north part of that, because the sea 60 miles away from the great sea shall break out, to the wall of the city as far as it is extended: But from the wall of Constantinople to the mouth of the Danube as far as 40 of the river [Crete., 60] with thousands of extends the same thing the sea. This, therefore, the Emperor 'the city has no walls are broken down by a small 12 miles from that place are surrounded by a, the angles according to the line of the sea by the sea coast, having a (as Alexandria or Carthage) built with the coast, and to the likeness of Tyre, with several towers the walls, a house within the walls of the city has a large number of whom very many of marvelous height, dwellings of stone, like a rise up in Rome. \Chapter SAME condition of the same of the city. Out of whose citizens the condition of the tradition of this from our ancestors show forth the promulgated, saying: The Emperor Constantine community is gathered together an infinite number of men, and on all sides almost an infinite number of costs of being bare of all the states been collected, the partner in the city of her name into the parts of Asia and, that is, in Cilicia, the interjected the sea, the borders of that in those between the boundary between Asia and Europe, began to build. On a certain night, with the innumerable, the maker of the army through the length of the immense of the camp in tents they lay down, all kinds of iron utensils, with which the different works of the craftsmen were accustomed to use, on a sudden how they are being taken up, is not known. Of whose Thanet, under the and not foreseen with the first the abolition of the emperor Constantine in the morning to very many workmen molests complaint had brought sorrow and sin, the king, saying, consequently, he inquires: "If other things you have heard out of the camp taken from a? You have no items, they say, with the exception of all the works iron weapons. Then the king commanded, and then saying to them: Go more swiftly, and went about citraque any more by the sea coast the shores of a neighboring purify the regions, and if in some of the fields in place of perhaps your repereritis tools, in the same place in the meantime, keep those things, and she does not receive what he has come hither, but to me, some of you to return to do that to know with certainty of iron utensils, should I have the repertione. When he heard this, but the laborers subservient by the words of marked off by the king or what has been said: They went out and, as he had been ordered to, after being purified here and there, the sea, and neighbors of the fields bounds, and, behold, in a part of Europe across the sea, the accumulation of iron utensils, they find, and between the two seas, gathered into one community. In place of to the king had been found of them some are coming, sent back, and was found reported that the iron tools were in such a place. When this was discovered, the king immediately by a trumpet, he orders all around the camp with trumpets to sound the march with his army and the army, saying: migrate to the city on this side in order to build us by God in the place designated in a prepared at the same time with all his army for the ships, as we found to the place of iron utensils, and passed over, which place, not in such a translation of them knew on him by God prepared for the designated. In which also he himself at once the city has created, which is the name of the composite out of my own his name and of the Greek cities of an appellative is called in the nomination of Constantinople, so that NAME of the Creator in the former composition of parts to go into. So much for the situation and the condition of the royal city of that described are sufficient. Chapter III that a church in which we find in the cross of the Lord. With regard to the the most famous of the city of the same round of marvelous height, and one of stone we ought not to the church to be silent, which, as the Holy One Arculf makes a difference, who had it will not quickly come frequently to places by the time of, from the bottom of foundations in the three rising up the walls, a triple against them higher than the gods are exalted in, roundest and much too beautiful a simple chamber is consummated culminata. This bows supported by the large, between the several mentioned above, the walls of the broad hath no space or to live in, and / or fit together to pray to God and comfortable. Within his house in the portion of the north and a heavy safe is very faire is displayed, in which we find in the box of wood, which in like manner a lid of a wooden superclauditur, in which we find in the salvation of hidden stores of wood of the cross, in which our Saviour for the salvation of the human race is hanged, he suffered. Which, of course the chest is predicable, as the Holy One Arculf does it matter, in the three for a few days when he has completed a year from the gold is raised to the altar in such a precious treasure. And this certainly would we find in the altar for a round church of the same, two cubits in length and one in breadth.into three forces, I say, only the days of the passing of the anniversaries to himself upon the altar of the cross of the Lord's lifted up their it is posited, that is, in the Supper of the Lord, in the day when the emperor and the army of the soldiers entering into the church, and to put it, coming to the altar, the sacred and holy that the open casket, the saving they kiss the cross. The first emperor of the world before all that he bowed his kisses the brow: And then according to the condition or age, rank, one by one, drew near, and he kisses the be honorable in the fatal tree. Accordingly, the morrow of the day, this is the sixth day of the week before Easter, for the queen, the matrons, and all the women of the people, mentioned above in the order of approach, with the kissing of all veneration. On the third day, which is the Sabbath of Easter, the bishop after him, and all the clergy with the fear and trembling, and all honor, the approach in order, kissing victorious in his own piece of wood has been assumed box as: when he had ended the saints, and bring joy to such of the cross of the holy kisses, the other box as the venerable superclauditur, and as they do so to his own honor and carried back safe is a treasure. But and this is not negligently, we must consider that it is not two, but three things in the same place, like the trees of the of the cross may have a short, that is, the transverse piece of wood, and the long, cut up and divided into two equal share in the parts of, of all which a threefold division: honorable pieces of wood, when she opened the box, and the wonderful odor, the fragrant of flowers, if also the story of all the collectors' rises in a wonderful full of sweetness, and gladdening satians all of that in a public thoroughfare within the set to the interior wall of the church, who entering into the same space of time "standing still. For as for the knots of the same trinalium some of the trees an odoriferous liquid, as it were in the likeness of An extract of oil, and such entering into the face of the whole of different tribes to feel aggregated to the above-mentioned most sweet odor to the fragrant smell of. To wit, whose liquid even if it were a kind of a little one, are ill to be imposed upon the upon the stillula, disease of any kind, molests or by disease, but full of recover their health. But of these have described these are sufficient. Chapter IV St George the Martyr. Arculf A holy man, all these things, which to us from the Sunday of the cross, he told, which he himself caught sight of their own eyes, and kissed, one for the us, by the confessor, that in another, the name of George, a relation to theirs, they [0810D] than in the city of Constantinople, he learned to those who had found by some citizens, who in this way said, "were wont to to tell to the same. In the Diospoli the city, the confessor of a certain a certain George in the family fortunes in a pillar of marble, against which, being bound in time of persecution when he was scourged, the formula is pictured, who has been freed, however, after with scourges from the prison, lived for many years. On a certain day, seeing that some of the heart, incredulous, too hard for little man, sitting on a horse, he was come into the house of the same, the same when he saw the pillar of marble, from them that were there present, he asked, saying: Whose is the image of a marble pillar in the formed for the purpose? To whom they said and saying: God, Confessor, George, this is the shape of, who a prisoner to this is the column and by the chastisement. Upon hearing this he a mad little man, was angry with the imperceptible to the very thing, the formula of the holy confessor, at the instigation of the devil, with a spear he struck Israel. That is, they of the same adversaries with a spear, as it were by a troop of snow in a wonderful way it an easy easy to penetrating and one of stone that pierce through the pillar of the exterior part of this: the iron of whose inherent in the inner he was held back, and will not in any way to draw it back at any time have the power. Now the shaft to the skin over the contusion of the holy confessor of the outward LITTLE IMAGE marble was broken. They, too, poor little things, mere manikins, the horse which he was sitting, and at that very moment under him, in the floor of the house he fell dead. But he was at the same time falling into the land of Poor little, the hand into it, he sent a pillar of marble, and its the middle finger, as it were in the palm of [a Gretserus read it politically, he hath corrected the softness.] Or entering into the mud, in the same stuck to the pillar of impressed upon it. At which sight the poor wretch, who to stand aside, to the fingers of the hands of the two was unable to, and in the marble of the holy confessor, and adhering to the formula inserted in it that if you gather, the name of the Eternal God, Confessor, and the agent of the same calls upon repentance, and so that the bond of man being acquitted by the same shedding tears of its prayer. Than of her with tears of penance for receiving the merciful Lord, who does not want the death of the sinner, but was to be converted and live; not merely to be visible on a marble that the present acquitted by the bond, but also from the invisible things of sinners saved by faith BAND 's aid mercifully free. Hence, therefore, is manifestly shown how great and of what kind of God of honor he is at it's under these tortures George the confessor, of which the thoracleam [Crete., Thoracidam] in a matter of the nature of impenetrable to be pierced potententia he did, and lance adversaries equally naturally impenetrable marvelous things to be pierced, her fingers and the sick on the little men of the same the nature of the same powerfully penetrating impenetrable he did, such as are for marble, a prisoner first thing he did was not able to stand aside, a hard: yet at the same moment and from that time were greatly afraid very much milder, the penitent has the gift of God He put it back. It is strange to tell! to this very day the same twice, But as his the steps of the toes, as far as they appear at the foot of, has been inserted to a marble pillar of men: In whose holy place Arculf his personal thrust his fingers into them ten men each, in like manner as far as they enter in at the foot of. Also little men of the Same blood of a horse, of which the hips [0811D] the dead upon the floor of the falling into two parts was broken in pieces, in no way be blotted out, or was able to be washed, but indelible in the floor of the house remains to our own as far as the times of the same equine blood. Another also of the same George confessor, that a certain relation Arculf has informed us, O holy, which, by those who sufficiently competent in the chroniclers and the above-mentioned without any doubt he learned to the city of Constantinople, who in this way of him to pronounce the holy confessor, that they had usually done, saying,. Some little man of a secular Diospolim the city, sitting on a horse, went into him at the time that make an expedition to the many thousands of peoples from all sides came together one body, let it coming, went into the house in which the above-mentioned column, on the marble stands out of the holy confessor himself, having a painted on a the image of George, as it were, to the George to the present, saying, he began to say: me to you, George, and my confessor, I commend the horse, and that, through the prayer of thy virtues from the war as a whole, and of diseases, and of waters, in perils set free from the both of them this as far as the city that after the campaign returned to the time we arrive safe and sound, and if thee, so thou our God, merciful shall have granted the reversion of, give good success, according to the choice of our own poor, I have him my, whom I love very much, the horse, as a tribute to thee as I offered it freely give everything away in the sight of your assignaturus of the formula. TITTLE-TATTLE He that quickly ended their house went out, and between the armies and with the rest of the multitude of the same comrades commeans slight man, in the county for the expedition, he removes by, that before had made many and various means of war and amid the dangers of very many thousands of poor of poor human beings, which strewing the perished, he himself, sitting in the same to his beloved horse, all was hostile, from the cases according to the above-mentioned was saved from such a recommendation, Christians George, and condonante to God, to the successful Diospolim comes back, wished the house where he was held to the same image of the holy confessor, with him bringing to the gold to be in the horse is her own reward, he was joyfully it enters, and the holy of George as if he addresses the present, saying: O holy confessor of the, I refer to God the eternal thanks, which gave me through the firmness of prayer of Thy Majesty was safely back in camp. Therefore to you the twenty shillings of gold I bring, the price of my horses or you done penance has entrusted to me, even to keep in existence to this very day. Saying these things, is described in the above mass of gold as before the feet of the holy confessor of the formula deposition, more than the horse lover than gold: and he went outside and having finished his kneeling, sitting above such a beast, to emigrate, indeed, can incite a, but in no manner could not be averted. The other, seeing the little man, he came down from his horse, and returned to enter the house, and all the other brings the ten shillings, saying: O holy confessor, after the cavalry, meek, this means I shall guardian for the expedition, among perils, thou hast been: but still, as I see, as a fierce and greedy, you are an article of merchandise is the horse. 10 Having said these words on the 20 shillings, he added and he says that this holy confessor to the Holy One: "And I add to you the shillings, so that thou mayest be made merciful to me, that my horse to walk in I can resolve the. This being done again mounted his horse and went out, he incites to the meandum: Who as it were in the same stood fixed in place, and not even one was able to move the foot. Why say more? the going up of the horse after the descensumque each by the four times, and have entering the house, bringing the ten shillings with him, and he returned the horse to the immovable; he went back into the second house and ran hither and thither: and so long did him no he could to remove the instigation of, how long the number of shillings the Congregation of 60 might be fulfilled. So then, repeating the above mentioned speech out of the holy confessor in the humanity of tame, and safe "on the expedition to guard, and an out of the of her, like, or even on the hardness of commercial relations that avarice, commemoransque such words as these, it is said, by the quaternales each of times, and have demanded back, he returned into the house, at last in this way the Holy George addresses the saying: the confessor of the Saint, now I know for certain that thy will. This is, accordingly, according to what you desire, the whole weight of gold, 60 shillings to wit, I offer to thee the gift itself was also my horse, whom you before condone the promised that after the campaign, now you, up to TIE-chains invisible forgive it, but he was soon, as I believe, dressed until the honor to God by thy .at the term of the word of this, he went out the house, the same of an hour he found a moment of absolute, put the run down with with him into the house, given to the holy confessor assigned in the sight of the image of there joined the ranks have jumped, glorifying Christ left the meeting. Hence we gather clearly that all devoted to the Lord whatever, it will be, whether a man, or beast, according to what it is written in Leviticus, the book (chapter 27) to be bought in no way can or motari; motaverit For if a man, and that is motatum motatum and that for which, be sanctified by the Lord, and shall not be redeemed. Chapter V the image of S. Of the blessed Virgin. Arculf often made mention of the blessed Virgin and of the holy Mother of the Lord thoracida [Crete., Thoraciola] they would surely have a relation, than in the city of Constantinople, by those who learned to witnesses, undoubtedly declared him saying. And in the same image of the city of the metropolitan the Blessed Mary, in a short time the table to the wall with a wooden figure of the house of a certain suspended was hanging up: and with it, and with a certain one was stupid enough to duricors of which a man asked him were the proper, by a certain learned to the corresponding of the holy that it was the figure of the blessed Virgin, ever a virgin of face, And when she heard a Jew he incredulous to the, at the instigation of the devil, the same out of the wall bore the image of a very angry, and he ran to a nearby house, where the human dung for a long Tables dug the holes above the stomachs of those who are seated to be in want are wont to do and there on account of Christ from the dehonorationem born to Mary, an image of his Mother 's through the key hole on the human the dung of a corpse lying below this cast it down, and he supersedens looseness of the bowels through the same hole was cleansing, of our own thoracidam upon the dung of the belly of the Blessed Mary, having laid aside the also the story a little while ago, left the stupid agent poured it out, and after that it most shameful for he greatest misfortune of the womb he departed in purgation of a human being. And what is it afterwards he hath done, or how he lived, or what manner of the limit of life he had, we find in ascertained. Well, after the departure of the evil of that, the other of the Christian people was come, as a man happy, "jealous husband" Sundays of things, knowing what was done, required it at the images of the saints of the blessed Virgin, and of human affairs, finding a hidden and exalted the dung, and diligently while washing and wiping away the pure, cleansed the waters, and led in the house of honorably positioned he had before. It is strange to tell! from the same table of the Blessed Mary, the truth of the image is always gushed out an let it drop of oil which Arculf, to bring their usual, caught sight of their own with their eyes. Wonderful is this the oil bears witness to the honor of Mary the mother of the Lord Jesus, about whom the Father says, "In with My holy oil he anointed the him '(Ps. 88). Also Psalmigraphus to the very Son of God, speaketh, saying:: I have anointed thee, O God, thy God, the oil of gladness above your companions (Ps. 44). This, then, things above about the condition of the situation and of Constantinople, and also, and of that round a church in which we find in the wholesome wood of hidden stores of, and so on from the mouth of the priest of the holy intently Arculf have taught us, who at the same the primary of the Roman empire from the city of the solemn feast of Easter as far as the feast of the remained part of the Dominican, From that time afterwards he sailed directly to Rome seeking. the mountain of his head to see who had always Vulcanio voice of thunder. Some of the islands in the sea on the east we find in the Great side of the, 12 Sicily, being distant by a thousand, in which the thunder of Vulcan, as it were a mountain and all day and night, to such an extent thunders, as the land of Sicily, are far removed, with fearful trembling of great service reputation. But the greater the sixth day of the week on the sabbath day and it seems a voice of thunder, who, at all times of flame nights is demonstrated, on days of be dried. This to me in writing of the Arculf told them to the mount that is the same to their own eyes ye have beheld him with the eyes, a night ignitosum, and on the smoke. Also by its own the sound of a Thunderstorm of the ears have heard the report, in Sicily, lodged for several days [a Up to this point a copy of Vatican.]. I beseech thee therefore short, and all who have read them little book, to the priest for the same holy Arculf the mercy of the divine adore, I, who was of the holy places of their residences a haunter of the experience of most gladly will [0814D] told them to us. The kinds and the laborious, therefore, between the any part of, and almost the overwhelming is the conglobate all the day long on every side, the anxieties of the Church is made king, even though the word of a cheap have explained in describing the. Therefore, of these I remind the reader of an experiment of to pray for me craxatore poor little sinner of the same [the writer] Christ, Judge of the world may not neglect Neglect not to pray.