Paragraph:
9
Translation:
Saint James, whom the Lord ordained bishop with his own hand after the Ascension of my Lord was thrown down from the Pinnacle of the Temple, and it did him no harm, but he was killed by a fuller with the wedge in which he used to carry things. He is buried on the Mount of Olives. This Saint James, Saint Zacharias, and Saint Simeon are buried in a single tomb, which this Saint James himself constructed. He reburied in it the bodies of the other two, and gave instructions that 'he himself should be buried there with them.
(transl. Wilkinson)
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Summary:
Description of the joint tomb of Saints James brother of Jesus, Zachariah and Simeon on Mount Olivet, from an itinerary of ca. AD 518-530.