Paragraph:
6
Translation:
Abba Polychronius the priest told us a story that he had heard from Abba Constantinus, the hegumen of Saint Mary Theotokos’ church, the ‘Nea’: “One of the brothers (of our monastery) died in the hospital of Jericho, and we went to take his body and convey it to the Towers, in order to bury him there; and from the moment when we descended from the hospital, until we came to the Towers, a star accompanied us all the way, shining over the dead, until we laid him down into the earth”.
(transl. Leah Di Segni)
Summary:
A monk of Saint Mary Theotokos dies in the hospital of Jericho and is buried in the Towers.