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Excerpt from The Churches of Constantine at Jerusalem: Being Translations From Eusebius and the Early Pilgrims
IN the years 326-335 a.d. The Emperor Constantine the Great erected certain buildings at Jerusalem over and near a rock-hewn tomb which he believed to be the sepulchre of Christ. These buildings remained intact until 614, when they are said to have been destroyed or greatly injured by the Persians. They are described by Eusebius, who was at Jerusalem whilst they were being built, and who was present at their dedication. They were also seen, whilst in a perfect state, by several pilgrims, who have left records, more or less full, of what they saw. But, as Professor Hayter Lewis well observes, the pilgrims cared little about the form and size of the buildings which enshrined the objects of their devotion, and their descriptions are often so cursory and confused as to make their precise meaning very doubtful. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
