Paragraph:
21
Translation:
On the Mount of Olives my Lord leaned his shoulders on a rock, and both shoulders sank into the rock as if it had been soft wax: This place is called the Ancona, and a church has been constructed there. Near it is the church where Saint Thecla is, and the place itself is called Bethphage. From there they took the "foal of an ass" on which my lord sat when he entered by the Gate of Benjamin into Jerusalem.
(transl. Wilkinson)
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Summary:
Mention of a church on Mount Olivet in a place called Ancona, Bethphage of the Gospels, from an itinerary of ca. AD 518-530.
Vincent and Abel suggested identifying the church seen by Theodosius with the one excavated on the slopes of the middle hilltop of the Mount of Olives.