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wards said to be discovered beneath a heap of char 
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eartli and stones*; although, as a Jewish Crypt, ,- ' - 
its being described as thus buried seems to 
imply an impossibility. Nothing remains to 
complete the furniture of the Sanctuary, but the 
discovery of the Cross: this an old Jew, menaced 
and tormented, speedily brings to light, with 
two others that were not required ^ Macarius, 
bishop of Jerusalem, receives orders to superin- 
tend and complete the execution of a most mag- 
nificent Sanctuary'; and Helena, triumphant in 
the success of her journey, returns from the 
(5) Euseb. in Vit. Constantini, lib. iii. c. 24, &c. Paris, 1659. 
(6) The account of the supposed discovery of " the three Crosses," 
as related by Adrichomius, is too long for iusertion here ; but it offers 
a curious picture of deplorable superstition, long prevalent on this 
subject ; and renders it doubtful, whether Helena, with all her cha- 
racter of humanity, were not as cruel as our English Mary, when 
instigated by a bigoted priest. Macarius, who is styled " supientissi- 
tnus ille Hierosolymorum Episcopus," seems to have been a principal 
agent in the torments inflicted upon the Jews, as well as in the jug- 
gling miracles which preceded and followed the discovery. Vide 
Adrichomii Theai. Terr. Sand. p. 176. Colon. 1628. 
(7) Vid. Epist. Constantini ad Macarium Episc. Terosolt/m. apud 
Euseb. de Vita Constantin. lib.m. cap. 31. Paris, 1659- The ori- 
ginal building, erected by Constantine's order, A. D. 326. was de- 
stroyed at the beginning of the Seventh century, by j4lman>or Hakim 
Billa, a Caliph of the race of the Fatimites in Egypt, and reljuilt by a 
Cree^b Emperor in 1048. Yet, says Mons. De Chdteaubriand , {vol. II. 
p.n. Lond. 1811.) " the architecture of the Church is evideutly of 
the age of (Jonstantine." The small fabric, over what is now called 
the Sepulchre, was again rebuilt in 1555. Vid. Lit. Bonifacii, apud 
Quaresm, torn, II. /». 512. 
