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After this, a priest who came from Spain to St. Benedict’s and stayed there asked permission of Abbot Petronax to go to Rome. When...

Embarking once more, they came to a city called Naples and remained there several days. It is the seat of an archbishop whose dignity...

They were there for a long time waiting for a ship to get ready. Afterwards they sailed during the whole of the winter, from...

Then they travelled across a wide plain covered with Olive trees, and with them travelled an Ethiopian and his two camels, who led a...

The remains of the church of St. George, who was said to have been born there, are still to be seen: they have been...

After praying there, they departed and care to a large town called Thecua: this is the place where the Holy Innocents were slaughtered by...

In the valley there is a church of our Lady andl the church is her tomb (not that her body lies at rest there,...

Inside there is the slab on which the body of our Lord lay, and on this slab flfteen lamps of gold burn day and...

Certainly the most effective of his methods for conciliating Tutach was, speaking broadly, a kind of offering the right hand of friendship; his words...

Roman forces in Sicily and it was not long before all Maniaces’ conquests49. Not strictly correct. John was speaking of his brother-in-law, Stephen, husband...