Cat. xvii. 13.
Epiphanius (De Mensuris et Ponder. c. 14):
“And he (Hadrian) found the city all levelled to the ground,
except a few houses, and the Church of God which was small: where
the Disciples, on their return after the Saviour was taken up from the
Mount of Olives, went up into the upper chamber: for there it had
been built, that is on Sion.” Cf. Stanley, Sinai and
Palestine, c. xiv. 3: “Within the precincts of that
Mosque (of the Tomb of David) is a vaulted Gothic chamber, which
contains within its four walls a greater confluence of traditions than
any other place of like dimensions in Palestine. It is startling
to hear that this is the scene of the Last Supper, of the meeting after
the Resurrection, of the miracle of Pentecost, of the residence and
death of the Virgin, of the burial of Stephen.”