The oft-mentioned Arculf saw a great church in Galgal. It is built in
the place where the sons of Israel first pitched their tent and dwelt in the
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land of Canaan when they had crossed the Jordan. (15) Now in this
church the same holy Arculf inspected the twelve stones concerning
which the Lord spoke to Josue after the passage of the Jordan saying:
‘Choose twelve men, one from each tribe, and tell them to take twelve
very hard stones from the centre of the bed of the Jordan, where the feet
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of the priests have rested, and these do you place in the camping ground
where this night you will have pitched your tents.’ These, I say, Arculf
noted, six of them in the southern portion of the church lying on the floor,
and the other six he noted in the northern portion, all unpolished and
rough. Each one of them, as Arculf himself relates, two strong young
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men of the present day could scarcely lift from the earth. One of them