Note (6) — 40.—Of Jherusalem and of the Holy Sepulchre.

(6.) “the church of Saint Steffan, where he was stoned.”—It is asserted on tradition (Noroff, Péler. en T. S., 19) that St. Stephen was stoned in front of the sepulchre of the Holy Virgin, on the road that leads from the Gate of St. Stephen, called also the Gate of Gethsemane. But there was another gate on the north side of the city, that was named by the Crusaders after the first Christian martyr, because it was believed that he was stoned in front of it; this gate is now the Gate of Damascus.