Concerning the tombs of the shepherds around whom the heavenly
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brightness shone on the night of the Lord's nativity, Arculf gave us as
brief account saying: I visited the three tombs of those three shepherds
(who are buried beside the tower of Gader) in a church. They are about
a mile distant from Bethlem, towards the east. It is in this very place,
near the tower of the flock, where the church containing the sepulchres
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of the shepherds is built, that, at the Lord's nativity, the brightness of
angelic light surrounded them.