 | Evaristo Breccia - 1922 - 408 pagina’s
...dismantled and turned into a Cathedral: fteyahl ixx^ala or Kvgtaxov, or Dominicum. The /«}''U// exxtyata was plundered and restored many times. In 368 it was...Schiess's tomb on the little hill in the garden of the Native Hospital, belonged to the Church of Theonas. There were no vast catacombs in Alexandria. The... | |
 | Otto F. A. Meinardus - 2002 - 376 pagina’s
...many years as the palace of the bishops. Here Athanasius was brought up. Under early Muslim rule, this church was turned into a mosque. The Arabs gave it the name of the Western Mosque, or the Mosque of a Thousand Pillars. Now this historical site is reoccupied by... | |
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Theonas (282-3oo) near the shore of the Eunostos Harbour was reconstructed and enlarged by the patriarch Alexander (313-326). After that date it was used as the cathedral of Saint Mary until the close of the IVth century, when the Caesareum became the... 