JERUSALEM. 
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Places.'' These have all been described by at vii, 
least a hundred authors. From the Monastery yj^i, '„, 
we descended to the Church of the Holy Se- 'l":^^"'^ 
•J Flaces. 
pulchre ; attended by several pilgrims, bearing 
with them rosaries and crucifixes for consecra- 
tion in the tomb of Jesus Christ. Concerning 
the identity of this most memorable relic, 
there is every evidence but that which should 
result from a view of the Sepulchre itself. After 
an attentive perusal of all that may be adduced, 
and all that has been urged, in support of it, 
from Eusebius, Lactantius, Sozomen, Jerom, Se- 
verus, and Nicephorus, it may be supposed that 
the question is for ever decided. If these 
testimonies be insufficient, " we might," says 
Chateaubriand^, " adduce those of Cijril, of Theo- 
doret, and even of the Itinerary from Bourdeauv 
to Jerusalem" in the middle of the fourth century. 
From the time of the Emperor Adrian, when 
the crucifixion and burial of our Savdour was 
(3) Mons- De Chdteauhriand, whose work contains much ilkistra- 
tion of this curious subject, after shewing that the Chinxh of the 
Holy Sepulchre may j'ossibly be referred to a period long anterior to 
the age of Helena, maintains, upon the evidence of a Letter written 
by the Emperor Constantine to Macarius bishop of Jerusalem, which 
is preserved by Eusehius, and upon the testimonies of C'yxil, Theodoret, 
and the Itinerary here cited, that its existence as far back as the time 
of Constantine cannot be disputed. See Travels in Greece, Palasiinc, 
Sfc. vol. II. p. 19. Land. 1811. 
