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and S. Croce in Gerusalemme. The Jews were accustomed to bury the
instruments of punishment in or near the place where the persons
executed were buried; but on this subject I must content myself with
referring to Baronius, Calmet, Menochius, Gretser etc. who cite the
Rabbins in proof of this assertion. Now according to the ancient
historians, Eusebius, Sozomen and Socrates: the Emperor Adrian erected
a temple of Venus over the tomb of the God of purity, after he had
covered it with a great quantity of rubbish. Helen the saintly mother
of the emperor Costantine, after many searches (according to Eusebius
in his life of that emperor) at length discovered the sacred tomb, in
which was found, according to Sozomen, the inscription placed over the
cross by Pilate, "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews"[106]. Near the
tomb in another part of the cave were found three crosses: but here a
difficulty arose on which of these three was our Saviour crucified?
At the suggestion of Macarius Bp. of Jerusalem, a woman at the point
of death, as Ruffinus, Socrates, Theodoret, Sozomen and Nicephorus
relate; or a dead man, according to Paulinus and Severus Sulpicius,
was brought to the spot, and restored to health or to life, when
placed on _one_ of the three crosses. If we consider, that it is
related in the 2nd book of Kings c, XIII, that when some persons "were
burying a man, they cast the body into the sepulchre of Eliseus.
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