medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
In relation to the recent thread on the New Jerusalem, I believe I may have run across the
earliest reference to a church as the New Jerusalem. In his Life of Constantine, Eusebius
describes Constantine's new Church of the Holy Sepulchre as just that: "New Jerusalem was
built at the very Testimony to the Saviour [i.e. the Sepulchre], facing the famous Jerusalem of
old, which after the bloody murder of the Lord had been overthrown in utter devastation, and
paid the penalty of its wicked inhabitants." (translation of Averil Cameron and Stuart G. Hall).
This is certainly older than any surviving consecration rite.
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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