Identifier: onnazarethhill00bail (find matches)
Title: On Nazareth hill
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Bailey, Albert Edward, 1871-1951
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) The Pilgrim press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ocatedfor pious rather than for archaeological reasons. Yetlocated they were, as soon as the arm of a Christianemperor shielded the Christian from Jewish hatred.The first basilica was built at Nazareth before 336 a.d.,probably at Constantines order, by Joseph, Count ofTiberias. From this building some monoliths of redgranite and some considerable areas of mosaic pavementstill survive in the church of the Annunciation. Thecrusaders under Tancred (1100) found this church inruins, but rebuilt it. Recent excavations are bringingmuch of this second building to light. In it wor-shiped St. Francis of Assisi (1219) and St. Louis ofFrance (i254). Less than ten years later, Reibars ofEgypt encamped with his army on Tabor and sent adetachment to destroy all churches and massacre allChristians. The Franciscans returned within sixtyyears and with varying success have held the town forChristianity ever since. Napoleon lodged here in 1799;it was for him his farthest East and his first Waterloo. (60)
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Photo by S. U. Mitman, Ph.D. NAZARETH, LOOKING EAST Y< THE PLACE OF SACRIFICE OU are now on the oak-dotted slopes of lower Gal-ilee and are looking due south at the Place of Sacrifice— the little knob under the cross. Nazareth is fifteenmiles to your left; Haifa is nine miles to your right.In the valley between you and Carmel flows the Kishon.The white Carmelite shrine on this south-easthaunch of Carmel is one of the most conspicuous ob-jects in a wide landscape, and the view from thebuilding is correspondingly grand. Your eye sweepsthe whole horizon of upper Galilee to towering Hermon,leaps the Jordan to the high level sky-line of the Hau-ran and the Decapolis, follows the billowy mountaincontours of Samaria, and loses definite vision far to thesouth in the violet haze that hovers over Sharon. Es-draelon, with all its scenes and its memories, rolls outlike a magic carpet at your feet. Heavenly is theonly way to describe the long morning the writer spenton the roof of this little

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