I. HELENA, the sister and wife of Monobazus King of the Adiabenians, embraced the Religion of the Jews, together with Izates her son, the successor of Monobazus. This Queen coming to a Joseph. Antiq. l. 20. c. 2. b De Bello, l. 6. c. 16. p. 920. c. & l. 7. c. 35. p. 964. c In the year of Jesus Christ 44.Jerusalem, directed a Palace to be built there, in the lower part of the city, where she dwelt till the death of Izates. In a great famine, which made havock in Judæa, she employed great sums of money in relieving the poor. Paulus Orosius will have it, that she embraced Christianity1. Her tomb was still to be seen in the time of Eusebius2 and St. Jerom3, at the distance of three furlongs from Jerusalem. Pausanias, who wrote at the end of the second Age, and had seen her Mausolæum, mentions it as one of the Wonders of the World.
The famine, which we have taken notice of, fell out in the year of Jesus Christ 44, and was the same with that foretold by the Acts xi. 28. Acts xi. 29, 30.prophet Agabus, wherein the Christians of Antioch signalized their charity towards those of Jerusalem.
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