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with six columns that was rebuilt over Sabbas' tomb by
Kantakouzenos, but he does not mention the saint's relics, which had either not yet been relocated there or elsewhere kept secret from visitors. He visited Sabbas' cell by means of two ladders and reports a chapel there. He is the first author to
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210:. It is a valuable account of the Ethiopian community in Jerusalem and its religious rituals. He observes that "the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is busy all year" and was served by "six fathers from the
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Theotokos was ruined with nothing but an altar remaining. The repairs ascribed to Kantakouzenos had either not been carried out or been quickly undone. He records that the chapel of Saint
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The name
Agrefeny (sometimes read Grefenii) is probably a version of Agrippa, Agrippin or Agrippii. Agrefeny was the superior of a monastery dedicated to the
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Agrefeny visited many churches and monasteries and is a valuable source of information about their state by the late 14th century. He reports that the
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to Cairo and a further six from there to
Alexandria. This may not indicate, however, that he made the journey. He indicates fifteen days from Gaza to
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and says that "up to there traveled the
Orthodox Christians, but beyond this point the Orthodox Christians cannot go".
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Y. Rachman-Schrire, "Sinai Stones on Mount Zion: Mary's
Pilgrimage in Jerusalem", in R. Bartal and H. Vorholt (eds.),
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Agrefeny's account is of great historical value. He may have been the first
Russian to visit
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333:"The Unorthodox 'Itinerary' of an Orthodox Bishop: Abraham of Suzdal and his Travels"
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476:"L'Afrique vue par les écrivains-voyageurs russes (du XIVe au début du XXe siècle)"
354:"Of Pilgrims and Poets, Prisoners and Politics: The Story of Egyptology in Russia"
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The
Sabaite Heritage in the Orthodox Church from the Fifth Century to the Present
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Travelers to the Christian East from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Century
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Ethiopian churches". Notably, he does not distinguish between Ethiopians and
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work in the codex. It is also the only illustrated Russian example of a
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In A. B. Davidson, D. A. Ol'derogge and V. G. Solodovnikov (eds.),
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Prokofiev, Nikolai I. (ed.). "Hozhdenie Agrefeniia v Palestinu".
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Between Jerusalem and Europe: Essays in Honour of Bianca Kühnel
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Many of these texts have been translated and published by the
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S. Yakobson, "Russia and Egypt the First Five Hundred Years",
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Tractatus de locis et statu sancte terre ierosolimitane
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Arab Orthodox Christians Under the Ottomans, 1516–1831
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439:"The First Russian Religious Missions to Ethiopia"
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53:First page of Agrefeny's account of his pilgrimage
46:around 1370 and left an account of his travels.
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422:"The Sabaite Heritage: An Introductory Survey"
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141:monastery of Choziba
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633:Peregrinatio Paulae
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