Churches at Bethlehem and on the Mount of Olives

In the same region he found other places, revered as the sites of two sacred caves, and these too he adorned with lavish magnificence. At the one he paid due honor to the place where our Savior’s divine presence first appeared, when he submitted to be born in mortal flesh. At the second cave he honored the memory of his ascension to heaven from the mountaintop. And while the emperor nobly showed his reverence for these places, he at the same time made everlasting the memory of his mother, who had been the means of bestowing so great a benefit on mankind.