This building would remain Camelot's largest church throughout the Vulgate cycles with additional, smaller, churches also being built.

Stephen the Martyr built,' the text reads. Joseph then returns and sees that Camelot has converted to Christianity, 'in the middle of the city he had the Church of St. After Joseph leaves, Agrestes persecutes the Christians, eventually going completely mad and throwing himself into a fire. Its king, a leader named Agrestes, who is described as being the 'cruelest man in the world,' falsely converted. Joseph succeeded in converting more than 1,000 of its inhabitants to Christianity. 'It was the richest of the Saracen cities in Great Britain, and it was so important that the pagan kings were crowned there, and its mosque was larger and taller than in any other city,' part of the text reads (translation by Carol Chase). According to a Vulgate story, he came to Britain and then to Camelot, finding it to be an Islamic city.

The story of Camelot starts with Joseph of Arimathea, who according to the Bible donated his tomb for the burial of Jesus.

It's a mystery why Camelot is mentioned by Chrétien de Troyes and by anonymous 13 th century French writers but not by earlier writers. ' Although located in Great Britain, its world was a place that included magicians, giants, dragons and, of course, many knights. The text says, in translation, that it 'was the city most full of adventures that ever was. In these cycles, Camelot would be discussed in detail. 'The romances run to several thousand pages of text, and they offer many hundreds of characters and countless adventures intricately interlaced with one another.' She also notes that the Post-Vulgate Cycle was written shortly afterward, again by an anonymous author.

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