The Nāṣirī Generations 293.2.8

293.2.8

“Maronsa founded a church—our author's monastery—in the midst of the city, which he dedicated to Batanus [?] and Barlis—and that church remains to this day, in a mahallat or quarter, which is known as the Rafat'-i-Yahud, and in it is a shrine of black marble, and in the shrine is a vessel of glass, in which is contained some of the blood of Yusha’ [—Joshua] the son of Nun, and that blood is a cure for every disease. When any leprous person is anointed with it, it removes the disease. They say that Maronsa brought this blood away from Rumiah, a gift from Konstantin, at the time of obtaining permission to depart on his return home.” Mughal army into the territory of the Malik-ul-Kamil; and a host of infidels advanced to the gate of the fortress of Mayya-farikin, and invested it, and commenced an attack upon it. For a period of three months or more they sat down before that fortress and besieged it arduously, and great numbers of the Mughals were killed and sent to hell, and wounded; but God knows the truth.