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Updated: May 24, 2025
These various churches are united in one building, which also encloses the Tomb of Christ, and Calvary, where our Lord was crucified. Arculphe then descended into the Valley of Jehoshaphat, which is situated to the east of the city, and contains the church that covers the tomb of the Virgin; he also saw that of Absalom, which he calls the Tower of Jehoshaphat.
Thence, Arculphe went to Jericho, or rather the place where the town once stood, whose walls fell at the sound of Joshua's trumpets.
Pliny, Hippalus, Arian, and Ptolemy Pausanias visits Attica, Corinth, Laconia, Messenia, Elis, Achaia, Arcadia, Boeotia, and Phocis Fa-Hian explores Kan-tcheou, Tartary, Northern India, the Punjaub, Ceylon, and Java Cosmos Indicopleustes, and the Christian Topography of the Universe Arculphe describes Jerusalem, the valley of Jehoshaphat, the Mount of Olives, Bethlehem, Jericho, the river Jordan, Libanus, the Dead Sea, Capernaum, Nazareth, Mount Tabor, Damascus, Tyre, Alexandria, and Constantinople Willibald and the Holy Land Soleyman travels through Ceylon, and Sumatra, and crosses the Gulf of Siam and the China Sea.
These pilgrimages became more and more frequent, and we have many names left to us of those who visited Palestine during the first centuries of Christianity. One of these pilgrims, the French Bishop Arculphe, who lived towards the end of the seventh century, has left us an account of his travels.
After having explored the neighbourhood of Bethany in the midst of the grove of olives, where the grave of Lazarus is said to be, and where the church, standing on the right hand is supposed to mark the spot where our Lord usually conversed with His disciples, Arculphe went to Bethlehem, which is a short distance from the holy city.
As soon as they were set free they left the town in great haste, and from that time their route is almost the same as that of the Bishop Arculphe; they visited Damascus, Nazareth, Cana, where they saw a wonderful amphora on Mount Tabor, where our Lord was transfigured, and the Lake of Tiberias, where St.
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