Translation:The Book of the Holy Places/1 - 4
THE THIRD BOOK
Chapter of Constantinople, in the first of the city.
Repeating the Arculf, Alexandria, he returned, he for some days in the island of
Crete, lodged, and from it a desire for sailing to Constantinople, in which he
abode for some months had elapsed. Being without a doubt is the metropolis of
the Roman Empire, surrounded by sea on all sides, except the north part of that,
because the sea 60 miles away from the great sea shall break out, to the wall of
the city as far as it is extended: But from the wall of Constantinople to the mouth
of the Danube as far as 40 of the river [Crete., 60] with thousands of extends the
same thing the sea. This, therefore, the Emperor 'the city has no walls are broken
down by a small 12 miles from that place are surrounded by a, the angles
according to the line of the sea by the sea coast, having a (as Alexandria or
Carthage) built with the coast, and to the likeness of Tyre, with several towers the
walls, a house within the walls of the city has a large number of whom very many
of marvelous height, dwellings of stone, like a rise up in Rome.
\Chapter SAME condition of the same of the city.
Out of whose citizens the condition of the tradition of this from our ancestors
show forth the promulgated, saying: The Emperor Constantine community is
gathered together an infinite number of men, and on all sides almost an infinite
number of costs of being bare of all the states been collected, the partner in the
city of her name into the parts of Asia and, that is, in Cilicia, the interjected the
sea, the borders of that in those between the boundary between Asia and
Europe, began to build. On a certain night, with the innumerable, the maker of
the army through the length of the immense of the camp in tents they lay down,
all kinds of iron utensils, with which the different works of the craftsmen were
accustomed to use, on a sudden how they are being taken up, is not known. Of
whose Thanet, under the and not foreseen with the first the abolition of the
emperor Constantine in the morning to very many workmen molests complaint
had brought sorrow and sin, the king, saying, consequently, he inquires: "If other
things you have heard out of the camp taken from a? You have no items, they
say, with the exception of all the works iron weapons. Then the king commanded,
and then saying to them: Go more swiftly, and went about citraque any more by
the sea coast the shores of a neighboring purify the regions, and if in some of the
fields in place of perhaps your repereritis tools, in the same place in the
meantime, keep those things, and she does not receive what he has come hither,
but to me, some of you to return to do that to know with certainty of iron utensils,
should I have the repertione. When he heard this, but the laborers subservient by
the words of marked off by the king or what has been said: They went out and,
as he had been ordered to, after being purified here and there, the sea, and
neighbors of the fields bounds, and, behold, in a part of Europe across the sea,
the accumulation of iron utensils, they find, and between the two seas, gathered
into one community . In place of to the king had been found of them some are
coming, sent back, and was found reported that the iron tools were in such a
place. When this was discovered, the king immediately by a trumpet, he orders
all around the camp with trumpets to sound the march with his army and the
army, saying: migrate to the city on this side in order to build us by God in the
place designated in a prepared at the same time with all his army for the ships,
as we found to the place of iron utensils, and passed over, which place, not in
such a translation of them knew on him by God prepared for the designated. In
which also he himself at once the city has created, which is the name of the
composite out of my own his name and of the Greek cities of an appellative is
called in the nomination of Constantinople, so that NAME of the Creator in the
former composition of parts to go into. So much for the situation and the
condition of the royal city of that described are sufficient.
Chapter III that a church in which we find in the cross of the Lord.
With regard to the the most famous of the city of the same round of marvelous
height, and one of stone we ought not to the church to be silent, which, as the
Holy One Arculf makes a difference, who had it will not quickly come frequently
to places by the time of, from the bottom of foundations in the three rising up the
walls, a triple against them higher than the gods are exalted in, roundest and
much too beautiful a simple chamber is consummated culminata . This bows
supported by the large, between the several mentioned above, the walls of the
broad hath no space or to live in, and / or fit together to pray to God and
comfortable. Within his house in the portion of the north and a heavy safe is very
faire is displayed, in which we find in the box of wood, which in like manner a lid
of a wooden superclauditur, in which we find in the salvation of hidden stores of
wood of the cross, in which our Saviour for the salvation of the human race is
hanged, he suffered. Which, of course the chest is predicable, as the Holy One
Arculf does it matter, in the three for a few days when he has completed a year
from the gold is raised to the altar in such a precious treasure. And this certainly
would we find in the altar for a round church of the same, two cubits in length and
one in breadth.into three forces, I say, only the days of the passing of the
anniversaries to himself upon the altar of the cross of the Lord's lifted up their it is
posited, that is, in the Supper of the Lord, in the day when the emperor and the
army of the soldiers entering into the church, and to put it, coming to the altar, the
sacred and holy that the open casket, the saving they kiss the cross. The first
emperor of the world before all that he bowed his kisses the brow: And then
according to the condition or age, rank, one by one, drew near, and he kisses the
be honorable in the fatal tree. Accordingly, the morrow of the day, this is the sixth
day of the week before Easter, for the queen, the matrons, and all the women of
the people, mentioned above in the order of approach, with the kissing of all
veneration. On the third day, which is the Sabbath of Easter, the bishop after
him, and all the clergy with the fear and trembling, and all honor, the approach in
order, kissing victorious in his own piece of wood has been assumed box as:
when he had ended the saints, and bring joy to such of the cross of the holy
kisses, the other box as the venerable superclauditur, and as they do so to his
own honor and carried back safe is a treasure. But and this is not negligently, we
must consider that it is not two, but three things in the same place, like the trees
of the of the cross may have a short, that is, the transverse piece of wood, and
the long, cut up and divided into two equal share in the parts of, of all which a
threefold division: honorable pieces of wood, when she opened the box, and the
wonderful odor, the fragrant of flowers, if also the story of all the collectors' rises
in a wonderful full of sweetness, and gladdening satians all of that in a public
thoroughfare within the set to the interior wall of the church, who entering into the
same space of time "standing still.
For as for the knots of the same trinalium some of the trees an odoriferous liquid,
as it were in the likeness of An extract of oil, and such entering into the face of
the whole of different tribes to feel aggregated to the above-mentioned most
sweet odor to the fragrant smell of. To wit, whose liquid even if it were a kind of a
little one, are ill to be imposed upon the upon the stillula, disease of any kind,
molests or by disease, but full of recover their health. But of these have
described these are sufficient.
Chapter IV St George the Martyr.
Arculf A holy man, all these things, which to us from the Sunday of the cross, he
told, which he himself caught sight of their own eyes, and kissed, one for the us,
by the confessor, that in another, the name of George, a relation to theirs, they
[0810D] than in the city of Constantinople, he learned to those who had found by
some citizens, who in this way said, "were wont to to tell to the same.
In the Diospoli the city, the confessor of a certain a certain George in the family
fortunes in a pillar of marble, against which, being bound in time of persecution
when he was scourged, the formula is pictured, who has been freed, however,
after with scourges from the prison, lived for many years. On a certain day,
seeing that some of the heart, incredulous, too hard for little man, sitting on a
horse, he was come into the house of the same, the same when he saw the pillar
of marble, from them that were there present, he asked, saying: Whose is the
image of a marble pillar in the formed for the purpose? To whom they said and
saying: God, Confessor, George, this is the shape of, who a prisoner to this is the
column and by the chastisement. Upon hearing this he a mad little man, was
angry with the imperceptible to the very thing, the formula of the holy confessor,
at the instigation of the devil, with a spear he struck Israel. That is, they of the
same adversaries with a spear, as it were by a troop of snow in a wonderful way
it an easy easy to penetrating and one of stone that pierce through the pillar of
the exterior part of this: the iron of whose inherent in the inner he was held back,
and will not in any way to draw it back at any time have the power. Now the shaft
to the skin over the contusion of the holy confessor of the outward LITTLE
IMAGE marble was broken. They, too, poor little things, mere manikins, the
horse which he was sitting, and at that very moment under him, in the floor of the
house he fell dead. But he was at the same time falling into the land of Poor little,
the hand into it, he sent a pillar of marble, and its the middle finger, as it were in
the palm of [a Gretserus read it politically, he hath corrected the softness.]
Or entering into the mud, in the same stuck to the pillar of impressed upon it. At
which sight the poor wretch, who to stand aside, to the fingers of the hands of the
two was unable to, and in the marble of the holy confessor, and adhering to the
formula inserted in it that if you gather, the name of the Eternal God, Confessor,
and the agent of the same calls upon repentance, and so that the bond of man
being acquitted by the same shedding tears of its prayer. Than of her with tears
of penance for receiving the merciful Lord, who does not want the death of the
sinner, but was to be converted and live; not merely to be visible on a marble that
the present acquitted by the bond, but also from the invisible things of sinners
saved by faith BAND 's aid mercifully free. Hence, therefore, is manifestly shown
how great and of what kind of God of honor he is at it's under these tortures
George the confessor, of which the thoracleam [Crete., Thoracidam] in a matter
of the nature of impenetrable to be pierced potententia he did, and lance
adversaries equally naturally impenetrable marvelous things to be pierced, her
fingers and the sick on the little men of the same the nature of the same
powerfully penetrating impenetrable he did, such as are for marble, a prisoner
first thing he did was not able to stand aside, a hard: yet at the same moment
and from that time were greatly afraid very much milder, the penitent has the gift
of God He put it back. It is strange to tell! to this very day the same twice, But as
his the steps of the toes, as far as they appear at the foot of, has been inserted to
a marble pillar of men: In whose holy place Arculf his personal thrust his fingers
into them ten men each, in like manner as far as they enter in at the foot of. Also
little men of the Same blood of a horse, of which the hips [0811D] the dead upon
the floor of the falling into two parts was broken in pieces, in no way be blotted
out, or was able to be washed, but indelible in the floor of the house remains to
our own as far as the times of the same equine blood.
Another also of the same George confessor, that a certain relation Arculf has
informed us, O holy, which, by those who sufficiently competent in the chroniclers
and the above-mentioned without any doubt he learned to the city of
Constantinople, who in this way of him to pronounce the holy confessor, that they
had usually done, saying,. Some little man of a secular Diospolim the city, sitting
on a horse, went into him at the time that make an expedition to the many
thousands of peoples from all sides came together one body, let it coming, went
into the house in which the above-mentioned column, on the marble stands out
of the holy confessor himself, having a painted on a the image of George, as it
were, to the George to the present, saying, he began to say: me to you, George,
and my confessor, I commend the horse, and that, through the prayer of thy
virtues from the war as a whole, and of diseases, and of waters, in perils set free
from the both of them this as far as the city that after the campaign returned to
the time we arrive safe and sound, and if thee,
so thou our God, merciful shall have granted the reversion of, give good success,
according to the choice of our own poor, I have him my, whom I love very much,
the horse, as a tribute to thee as I offered it freely give everything away in the
sight of your assignaturus of the formula. TITTLE-TATTLE He that quickly ended
their house went out, and between the armies and with the rest of the multitude
of the same comrades commeans slight man, in the county for the expedition, he
removes by, that before had made many and various means of war and amid the
dangers of very many thousands of poor of poor human beings, which strewing
the perished, he himself, sitting in the same to his beloved horse, all was hostile,
from the cases according to the above-mentioned was saved from such a
recommendation, Christians George, and condonante to God, to the successful
Diospolim comes back, wished the house where he was held to the same image
of the holy confessor, with him bringing to the gold to be in the horse is her own
reward, he was joyfully it enters, and the holy of George as if he addresses the
present, saying: O holy confessor of the , I refer to God the eternal thanks, which
gave me through the firmness of prayer of Thy Majesty was safely back in camp.
Therefore to you the twenty shillings of gold I bring, the price of my horses or you
done penance has entrusted to me, even to keep in existence to this very day.
Saying these things, is described in the above mass of gold as before the feet of
the holy confessor of the formula deposition, more than the horse lover than gold:
and he went outside and having finished his kneeling, sitting above such a beast,
to emigrate, indeed, can incite a, but in no manner could not be averted. The
other, seeing the little man, he came down from his horse, and returned to enter
the house, and all the other brings the ten shillings, saying: O holy confessor,
after the cavalry, meek, this means I shall guardian for the expedition, among
perils, thou hast been: but still, as I see, as a fierce and greedy, you are an article
of merchandise is the horse. 10 Having said these words on the 20 shillings, he
added and he says that this holy confessor to the Holy One: "And I add to you
the shillings, so that thou mayest be made merciful to me, that my horse to walk
in I can resolve the. This being done again mounted his horse and went out, he
incites to the meandum: Who as it were in the same stood fixed in place, and not
even one was able to move the foot. Why say more? the going up of the horse
after the descensumque each by the four times, and have entering the house,
bringing the ten shillings with him, and he returned the horse to the immovable;
he went back into the second house and ran hither and thither: and so long did
him no he could to remove the instigation of, how long the number of shillings
the Congregation of 60 might be fulfilled. So then, repeating the above
mentioned speech out of the holy confessor in the humanity of tame, and safe
"on the expedition to guard, and an out of the of her, like, or even on the
hardness of commercial relations that avarice, commemoransque such words as
these,
it is said, by the quaternales each of times, and have demanded back, he
returned into the house, at last in this way the Holy George addresses the
saying: the confessor of the Saint, now I know for certain that thy will. This is,
accordingly, according to what you desire, the whole weight of gold, 60 shillings
to wit, I offer to thee the gift itself was also my horse, whom you before condone
the promised that after the campaign, now you, up to TIE-chains invisible forgive
it, but he was soon, as I believe, dressed until the honor to God by thy .at the
term of the word of this, he went out the house, the same of an hour he found a
moment of absolute, put the run down with with him into the house, given to the
holy confessor assigned in the sight of the image of there joined the ranks have
jumped, glorifying Christ left the meeting. Hence we gather clearly that all
devoted to the Lord whatever, it will be, whether a man, or beast, according to
what it is written in Leviticus, the book (chapter 27) to be bought in no way can or
motari; motaverit For if a man, and that is motatum motatum and that for which,
be sanctified by the Lord, and shall not be redeemed.
Chapter V the image of S. Of the blessed Virgin. Arculf often made mention of
the blessed Virgin and of the holy Mother of the Lord thoracida [Crete.,
Thoraciola] they would surely have a relation, than in the city of Constantinople,
by those who learned to witnesses, undoubtedly declared him saying. And in the
same image of the city of the metropolitan the Blessed Mary, in a short time the
table to the wall with a wooden figure of the house of a certain suspended was
hanging up: and with it, and with a certain one was stupid enough to duricors of
which a man asked him were the proper, by a certain learned to the
corresponding of the holy that it was the figure of the blessed Virgin, ever a virgin
of face, And when she heard a Jew he incredulous to the , at the instigation of
the devil, the same out of the wall bore the image of a very angry, and he ran to a
nearby house, where the human dung for a long Tables dug the holes above the
stomachs of those who are seated to be in want are wont to do and there on
account of Christ from the dehonorationem born to Mary, an image of his Mother
's through the key hole on the human the dung of a corpse lying below this cast it
down, and he supersedens looseness of the bowels through the same hole was
cleansing, of our own thoracidam upon the dung of the belly of the Blessed Mary,
having laid aside the also the story a little while ago, left the stupid agent poured
it out, and after that it most shameful for he greatest misfortune of the womb he
departed in purgation of a human being. And what is it afterwards he hath done,
or how he lived, or what manner of the limit of life he had, we find in ascertained.
Well, after the departure of the evil of that, the other of the Christian people was
come, as a man happy, "jealous husband" Sundays of things, knowing what was
done, required it at the images of the saints of the blessed Virgin, and of human
affairs, finding a hidden and exalted the dung, and diligently while washing and
wiping away the pure, cleansed the waters, and led in the house of honorably
positioned he had before. It is strange to tell! from the same table of the Blessed
Mary, the truth of the image is always gushed out an let it drop of oil which Arculf,
to bring their usual, caught sight of their own with their eyes. Wonderful is this the
oil bears witness to the honor of Mary the mother of the Lord Jesus, about whom
the Father says, "In with My holy oil he anointed the him '(Ps. 88). Also
Psalmigraphus to the very Son of God, speaketh, saying:: I have anointed thee,
O God, thy God, the oil of gladness above your companions (Ps. 44). This, then,
things above about the condition of the situation and of Constantinople, and also,
and of that round a church in which we find in the wholesome wood of hidden
stores of, and so on from the mouth of the priest of the holy intently Arculf have
taught us, who at the same the primary of the Roman empire from the city of the
solemn feast of Easter as far as the feast of the remained part of the Dominican,
From that time afterwards he sailed directly to Rome seeking.
the mountain of his head to see who had always Vulcanio voice of thunder.
Some of the islands in the sea on the east we find in the Great side of the, 12
Sicily, being distant by a thousand, in which the thunder of Vulcan, as it were a
mountain and all day and night, to such an extent thunders, as the land of Sicily,
are far removed, with fearful trembling of great service reputation. But the greater
the sixth day of the week on the sabbath day and it seems a voice of thunder,
who, at all times of flame nights is demonstrated, on days of be dried. This to me
in writing of the Arculf told them to the mount that is the same to their own eyes
ye have beheld him with the eyes, a night ignitosum, and on the smoke. Also by
its own the sound of a Thunderstorm of the ears have heard the report, in Sicily,
lodged for several days [a Up to this point a copy of Vatican.].
I beseech thee therefore short, and all who have read them little book, to the
priest for the same holy Arculf the mercy of the divine adore, I, who was of the
holy places of their residences a haunter of the experience of most gladly will
[0814D] told them to us. The kinds and the laborious, therefore, between the any
part of, and almost the overwhelming is the conglobate all the day long on every
side, the anxieties of the Church is made king, even though the word of a cheap
have explained in describing the. Therefore, of these I remind the reader of an
experiment of to pray for me craxatore poor little sinner of the same [the writer]
Christ, Judge of the world may not neglect Neglect not to pray.