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Jerome Ep. XLVI. 88 The Christians of the immediate vicinity had uninterruptedly venerated the Holy Places, except perhaps during the troubles of 70 A. D. Cf. DACL VII 2309. Only a few pilgrims from a distance are recorded to have visited before the fourth century, ibid. 2311. The reverence shown the Holy Places by Christians from earliest times may be attested by the fact that the pagans soon after the death of Christ erected shrines to their gods over Calvary, Bethlehem, and other sacred localities in order to ridicule the Christian faith.
81 Ep. II P 16,15; Ep. III P 18,9. Scholars for a long time held without question that in the fourth century a single edifice enclosed the Holy Sepulcher, Golgotha, and the cistern in which the instruments of the Passion were found. The text of Etheria no longer permits this interpretation. Her text formally distinguishes the Anastasis from another church raised on Golgotha, and designated by the name Ecclesia Major or Martyrion. Cf. "Jerusalem" DACL VII 2375 and 2312-2318. 82 J I 54, 1-6; Cf. J II 293, 21.
His correspondent is one of the most valued of his friends. 175 On the other hand, nine letters lack such a formal introduction and commence almost abruptly, but more in the manner of a typical friendly letter of to-day. "177 St. Gregory makes no apology for the omission of the formal proemium and since other epistolographers, roughly contemporaneous with him,178 manifest a similar freedom in its use or omission it would seem that the nature of the letter and the personal ch;ice of the author in each case might determine the procedure in the fourth century.