Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Exploring Little-Known Sites in the Holy Land — the Pinnacle of the Temple, the Praetorium and Via Dolorosa, Constantine’s Doorstep, and My Very Own Family of Bethany…

Many people also do not know that the Pinnacle of the Temple is also the place of St. James the Less’s (Jesus’s cousin and First Bishop of Jerusalem) martyrdom. In Book III, Chapter 23 of The Church History, written by the bishop of Caesarea Maritima, Eusebius, in around A.D. 325, he recounts the death of St. James by quoting an even earlier Church historian by the name of Hegesippus…