The Empress Eudocia Goes to Jerusalem

The Emperor Theodosius also offered thanks to God for the blessings given him, and at the same time honored Christ with the most special honors. He also sent his wife Eudocia to Jerusalem, for she had bound herself by a vow to go there if she lived to see her daughter married. So the empress, on her visit to the holy city, adorned its churches with the most costly gifts; and both then and after her return she decorated all the churches in the other cities of the East with a variety of ornaments. [a]