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| The Empress Eudocia goes to Jerusalem; sent there by the Emperor Theodosius.
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Chapter XLVII.—The
Empress Eudocia goes to Jerusalem; sent there by the Emperor
Theodosius.
Moreover the Emperor Theodosius
offered up thanksgivings to God for the blessings which had been
conferred upon him; at the same time reverencing Christ with the most
special honors. He also sent his wife Eudocia to Jerusalem,1039
| 1039On this visit of the empress to Jerusalem, see
Evagrius, H. E. I. 20–23. During this visit for some
reason or other—variously stated by the authors of the
period—an alienation occurred between the emperor and Eudocia.
See above, chap. 21, note 2.
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she having bound herself by a vow to go thither, should she live to see
the marriage of her daughter. The empress therefore, on her visit to
the sacred city, adorned its churches with the most costly gifts; and
both then, and after her return, decorated all the churches in the
other cities of the East with a variety of ornaments.
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