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Title: The home of God's people
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Gage, William Leonard, 1832-1889
Subjects: Bible Palestine -- Description and travel
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : Dustin, Gilman & Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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with no more resemblance to a human footthan to anything else. It must have been sought and selectedin default of anything better; it could never either have beeninvented or have suggested the connection. The site is probably ancient. This doubtless is the topof the hill on which Helena built one of the only twochurches which Eusebius ascribes to her (the other being, aswe have seen, at Bethlehem)—the church whose glitteringcross first caught the eye of the pilgrims who approached Je-rusalem from the south and west. At the same time there isone circumstance on which Eusebius lays great stress, andwhich throws a new light on the special object for which thischurch was erected. That object, he tells us, as at Bethlehem,was a cave—a cave, as he further adds, in which a true tra-dition maintains that our Lord had initiated his disciples in hissecret mysteries before the ascension, and to which, on thataccount, pilgrimages were in his time made from all parts of .m.m\,ntiHm.,iii(\TOi,
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456 SITE OF iiklenas church. the Enqjire. It was to honor this cave, which*Constantinehimself also adorned, that Helena built a church on the sum-mit of the mountain, in memory of the Ascension. The caveto which Eusebius refers must almost certainly be the sameaig that singular catacomb, a short distance below the thirdsummit of Olivet, commonly called the Tombs of the Proph-ets, and fust distinctly noticed by Arculf in the seventhcentury, to whom were shown within it four stone tables,where our Lord and the Apostles sate. In the next centurythe same four tables of His Supper, were shown again toBernard the Wise, who speaks of a church being erected thereto commemorate the Betrayal. From tliat period it remainedunnoticed till attention was again called to it by the travelersof the seventeenth century, in whose time it had assumed itspresent name, which it has borne ever since. It is clear from the language of Eusebius that the traditionals)3ot which Helena meant to honor was not the s

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