Diatribe de Prodigiosis Crucibus

...with such alacrity and such fervent heat of mind, that even the women themselves, when baskets were lacking, would carry out the refuse of the debris in the folded hems of their garments; they would expend all their feminine finery, necklaces, chains, and earrings as a happy omen for the work, while the remaining Hebrews dispersed throughout the world, at the very first report of this endeavor, provided a vast sum of money collected from everywhere. This matter troubled the Christians in a wonderful
The Jews’ hatred of Christ. manner, especially when the Jews reproached them with the false prophecy of Christ, pointing to the very foundations, still intact and unshaken, clearly demonstrating the fact itself. But they persevered in the faith, strengthened by the prophetic spirit of St. Cyril, then Bishop of Jerusalem, who said that the time had now arrived when, with the prophecy of Christ fulfilled, not a stone would remain upon a stone; meanwhile, the Jews accepted the words of the holy man with laughter and insistently pressed on with the work: Lo, suddenly a formidable earthquake arose, which not only, horrific to relate, shook all the stones of the ancient Temple structures to their foundations, but