Paragraph:
594, 1-4
Translation:
About a stone’s throw from (the hillock of Golgotha) is the crypt where his body was laid and rose again on the third day. There, at present, by order of the Emperor Constantine, has been built a basilica, that is, a church of the Lord, of wondrous beauty, which has beside it cisterns from which water is raised, and behind it a bath <baptistry> where children are baptized.
(transl. Di Segni)
Bibliografical ref.:
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no. 13 |
Summary:
Mention of the basilica built by the order of Constantine, and its cisterns and baptistry, from an itinerary of ca. AD 333.