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and together with the obstructions of the neighboring buildings, so dispersed and scattered them that one would think not one stone remained upon another; the Jews were in part killed, and in part, considering the formidable spectacle, consulted their safety by flight. Here the wrath of the Divine vengeance did not cease; fire sent from heaven, following the earthquake, reduced to ashes all the instruments of the building—hammers, chisels, trowels, saws, axes, adzes, picks—and finally everything that the laborers deemed suitable for completing the work, along with the Jews, through flame and conflagration. And lest anyone should think this happened by chance, another immense prodigy occurred. Indeed, on the following night, upon the cloths of the altars, books, garments, and cloaks, not of Christians, but of Jews and Gentiles—now by a third and more evident miracle—Crosses formed by the light of rays appeared impressed, not only in Jerusalem, but also in Antioch and other neighboring cities; (for they report that to the same Julian, while he was inspecting the entrails of animals, a crowned Cross appeared), which, as the day dawned, the Hebrews beholding...
The appearance of a Cross upon the garments of the Hebrews.