Author: Neil C. Brooks

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-09-04

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9781333462987

Excerpt from The Sepulchre of Christ in Art and Liturgy: With Special Reference to the Liturgic Drama After the accounts of the Evangelists the next knowledge we have con cerning the place of burial is from Eusebius, the Greek historian and contemporary biographer of Constantine. In his Vita Constantini he states that he wrote a separate treatise on the church of the Saviour and his sepulchre,2 a work which unfortunately is no longer extant. The Vita itself, however, contains a rather full but not always perfectly clear de scription of the entire site and its buildings. It relates that Constantine judged it incumbent upon him to render the blessed locality of our Saviour's resurrection an object Of attraction and veneration to all that the Holy Sepulchre had been covered with rubbish and with idols by the ungodly. That Constantine commanded the materials of the idol temple, and the soil itself, to be removed at a distance, and that as soon as the original surface of the ground, beneath the covering of earth, appeared, immediately, and contrary to all expectation, the venerable and hallowed monument Of our Saviour's resurrection was discovered. This monument Constantine adorned, and over it he probably built a circular structure, the Anastasis. He also built a large basilica, the Martyrium. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.