Translation:The Book of the Holy Places/14

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The Book of the Holy Places
by Bede, translated from Latin by Wikisource
Chapter 14 : THE FIRST BOOK
Chapter XIV the tower of Josaphat
968186The Book of the Holy Places — Chapter 14 : THE FIRST BOOK
Chapter XIV the tower of Josaphat
WikisourceBede

Chapter XIV the tower of Josaphat, being framed together in the same valley.

Out of the tombs of Simeon and of Joseph. In the same valley of the above-mentioned, not far from the church of St Mary, a tower of Josaphat, is demonstrated, the tomb of, in which even is seen: to wit, to whom the turret and one of stone of the house of a kind of hang together on the right part, from the rock, hewn out of the separated and the Mount of Olives, in which the [0788D] the iron tools within hollowed out by the are shown the graves of the two, without any adornment, of which one part of that of Simeon out the man is he who the little infant Jesus in the temple of the Lord, with both [et al., is ambiguous and] Holding hands, prophesied of him: but the other equally as the just Joseph, of St Mary of the bridegroom, and the nurse and of the Lord Jesus.