mananalis

Updated: May 15, 2025

In his humble dwelling of Mananalis, Constantine entertained a deacon, who returned from Syrian captivity, and received the inestimable gift of the New Testament, which was already concealed from the vulgar by the prudence of the Greek, and perhaps of the Gnostic, clergy.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5