The Library of the Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society
The Library of the Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society
White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918. Fmo
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56 THEODERICH'S DESCRIPTION. about one hundred steps, into a very deep subterranean cave, and finds the bodies of numberless pilgrims, which are said to have been brought thither in the following manner : All the pilgrims who came one year to pray, as usual, found the city full of Saracens, and being, therefore, unable to enter it, besieged those who were in the city. But as they had neither food nor arms sufficient for the accom- plishment of so arduous a feat, they began to be in great strait...s for want of provisions. While they were thus in want, the Saracens, seeing that they were unable to resist, suddenly sallied forth from the city, and put them all to the sword. Now, as a stench arose from the corpses of so many men, they determined to burn them all ; but that same night a lion appeared, sent from God, who cast all the bodies into that cave, which has a narrow mouth. Every particle of them may be carried across the sea ; indeed, when it is put on board, the ships are said to go home of their own accord.
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