The Home of Fadeless Splendour Or Palestine of Today
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" ^ In the Magdalen College Library at Oxford there is a remarkable manuscript of the " Life of St. Mary Magdalene, " which professes to be the copy of an original account of the life of the saint, compiled by one Rabanus, who lived 776-856, and this copy is supposed to date from about 1450. This document opens with a short history of the family of Bethany thus : "In the territory of Jerusalem, on the Moimt of Olives, at fifteen stadia ' to the east of the Holy City, is situated the little town... of Bethany, the country of Mary Magdalene, of Lazarus, and of Martha. Here was bom Martha, the venerable hostess of our Lord, whose mother, Eucharia, was descended from the royal family of the House of Israel. Her father, Theophilus, was a Syrian prince, and governor of the maritime country. Martha had a sister of great beauty, named Mary, and a young brother *■ St. Matthew xxvi. 13. * About two miles. iaiiW BETHANY 289 called Lazarus. " ^ We are told that they were wealthy people, a considerable portion of Jerusalem besides the village of Bethany belonging to them, also the village of Magdala.
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