Chapters 17 and 18 of the Apocalypse look grimly forward to just such a fate for Rome as Rome had wreaked on Jerusalem, on Corinth, on Carthage, and many another city of her foes, just such a fate as Rome did in fact suffer under the fire and sword of Alaric the Goth. The former ...
Near Gaza and in the desert along the eastern side of Jerusalem a number of tiny clusters of cells had been made from caves and taken as residence by ascetics, from whose fame and example that way of life later spread to many other corners of the Levant. The bishop of Jerusalem, Cyril...
10) Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of the New City by Adina Hoffman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) This is a remarkable and often beautifully written history of modern Jerusalem, as told from the point of view of its architecture. Jerusalem is a city, author Adina Hoffman writes, ...
Peter’s Tomb and Remains Maria Valtorta’s Correspondence with Roman Prelates on Peter’s Tomb Peter’s First Burial Site According to Maria Valtorta Peter’s Walk Checked against the Map of Rome of the I Century Analysis of the Data According to Archeology Has Maria Valtorta Invented Peter’...