Christian Tradition
In the New Testament, when Jesus mentions a "city set upon a hill" that "cannot be hidden" (one of the metaphors of Salt and Light in the Sermon on the Mount) he may have been referring to Hippos. In addition, a miracle of Jesus recounted in Mark 5 and Luke 8 may also be related to Hippos. See Gergesa for a discussion of the location of this miracle.
Catholic mystic Maria Valtorta in her vision-based work "Poem of the Man God" reports that Jesus Christ visited and preached in Hippos.
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