On Thursday, May 8, 2025, Dr. Konrad Vössing, a historian of Antiquity at the University of Bonn, gave a lecture entitled:
“Eudocia, Daughter of a Roman Emperor – Between Rome, Carthage, and Jerusalem.”
This topic was highly anticipated by the academic community of the ÉBAF, and for good reason: it was this Byzantine empress who ordered the construction of a basilica on the site of Saint Stephen’s martyrdom.
In 472, she fled from Carthage to Constantinople, where she had been held captive by the Vandals since 455. Later, in Jerusalem, she spent a few days in the Holy City, having venerated the sacred sites and embraced the tomb of her grandmother. She died peacefully there. She bequeathed all her possessions to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and to the Christians of the Holy Land.
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Photo: ÉBAF, Ordo Prædicatorum.
Photo: ÉBAF, Ordo Prædicatorum.
Photo: ÉBAF, Ordo Prædicatorum.
She fell asleep in holy repose and was buried near her grandmother’s tomb, on the site that would later become the École Biblique et Archéologique Française of Jerusalem.
Exceptionally, there will be no YouTube replay of the lecture.
