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Pilgrimage in the Holy Land
St John Phocas, tr. Stewart, 1889
Chapter 28
About two miles outside holy Bethlehem, in the Abbot’s monastery, there is a grotto wherein the Magi were warned by an oracle not to return to Herod, and they returned by another way to their own country. About six miles beyond this Laura, near the desert of Ruba, in the monastery of St. Chariton,1 and at a considerable distance beyond it, is the double tomb of Abraham, which is in Hebron, and the oak of Mamre, beneath which the patriarch Abraham entertained the holy Three. This is the description (of the holy places) from Ptolemaïs through Galilee, as far as Jerusalem, the Holy City, the Jordan, and the holy wilderness. Those on the sea-coast are as follows:—
Notes
- ‘Charison’ in the Latin translation. Khurbet el-Khureitūn, between the Frank Mountain and Tekoa.