After arriving (in Constantinople) and securing the interests of his church with the assistance of Archbishop Euphemius of Constantinople, towards the end of the reign of Zeno, he conceived the plan pleasing to God of withdrawing to the holy city and living by himself in isolation from the affairs of this life. Sending the priests and clerics with him on their way with the imperial decrees he had obtained, he gave them all the slip, embarking in a ship on his own, and came to Jerusalem, where he lodged just outside the holy city in the hospice founded by blessed Eudocia, the hospice in which there is a chapel of the holy martyr George. On entering it and finding there the hubbub of the world, he was grieved in spirit and begged God with tears to be led to some pleasant and solitary spot conducive to salvation.
(transl. Price)
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Identification of this church with the archaeological remains at Ketef Hinnom is uncertain.