IX. 
RAMA. 435 
England is said, by some, to have suffered mar- ^71^^' 
tyrdom"; although, according to most authors, 
his rehcs reposed in a magnificent temple at 
Lydda OT Diospolis^ . We observed the remains 
of very considerable edifices within this deso- 
lated city: but no one was present, to give us 
any information concerning them ; even the 
monastery, which for centuries had entertained 
pilgrims at Rama^, was deserted, and left to ruin. 
Its distance from Jerusalem, usually estimated 
at a day's journey^", is described by Phocas as 
equal to thirty-six or thirty-seven miles ". 
Phocas distinguishes Armathem, the native place 
of the prophet Samuel, from Ramola, or Rama, 
with which Adrichomius seems to have con- 
founded it ^^; and places the Church of St. George 
(7) 'E^TO. iKiThn xuTikalitf ri 'T?a./jt,tX, \v Z xai o fttyaXe/xii^ros Tita^ytes 
fiifUMQTv^fixe. *' Postca taroen in Ramel transeunt, ubi inag^nus Martyr 
Georgius martyrjum subiit." Anna Comnenee Jlexiad. lib. xi. p. 328. 
Par. 1651. 
(8) See the lon^ account given by /Jdarmianm;, de hoc. Srmct. lib. iii„ 
c. 4. Apud Mabillon, Jcta Ord. Benedict. Scec. 3. p. 520. Par. 1672. 
Also Quaresm. torn. II. p. 9- Antv. 163.9, &c. 
(?) " Hospitatrtur entm peregrini in e& domo quae Nicod*ini, 
Christi occulti discipuli, fuit. Haec domus in Monasterium fuit co- 
aptata, nunc et Monasterium et Hospitium Pereg^rinorum est." 
Bonifacius, lib.W. de perenni CuUu Terra Sayicta. 
(id) *' Abesse ab urbe HierosolymitanA iter unius diei." Rcl. Pat. 
Plust. torn. II. ;?. .960. Vtr. 1TI4. 
(U) Phoca Descript. Terr. Sanct. c. 2$). p. 44. Colon. 1653. 
(12) Theatrum Terr. Sanct. p. 29. Coton. 1628. 
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