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The Garden Tomb and the Misfortunes of an Inscription

By Jerome Murphy-O’Connor

On November 7, 1889, the Northern Christian Advocate (Syracuse, New York) published a note from an anonymous correspondent in Jerusalem: “There are strange rumors afloat about an inscription found at St. Stephen’s [St. Étienne’s monastery] (north of Damascus Gate). It is said that the Romanists are anxious to hush up the discovery, as it would damage the credit of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Its contents are to the following effect: ‘I, Eusebius, have desired to be buried in this spot, which I believe to be close to the place where the body of my Lord lay.’” Those […]

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Endnotes

1.

“Notes and News,” Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly Statement (PEFQS), 1890, p. 3.

2.

The ins and outs of the affair are detailed with mordant Gallic humor by Louis-Hugues Vincent, “Garden Tomb. Histoire d’un mythe,” Revue Biblique 34 (1925), pp. 401–431.

3.

Joseph Germer-Durand, “Nouvelles Archéeologiques de Jérusalem,” Cosmos, No 235 (July 27, 1889), p. 453.

4.

Edward Hull, letter in PEFQS, April 1890, p. 125.

5.

James Edward Hanauer, “Notes on the Controversy Regarding the Site of Calvary,” PEFQS, October 1892, pp. 307–308.

6.

This letter is reprinted in PEFQS, January 1893, pp. 80–81, together with a selection of the letters published by the Times in response (pp. 81–89).

7.

Claude R. Conder, Letter to Times reprinted in PEFQS, January 1893, p. 82.

8.

Marie-Joseph Lagrange, Saint Étienne et son sanctuaire à Jérusalem (Paris: Picard, 1894).

9.

Robert Macalister, “The Garden Tomb,” PEFQS, July 1907, p. 232.

10.

Quoted in Vincent, “Garden Tomb,” p. 422.