Identifier: holylandbible01geikuoft (find matches)
Title: The Holy Land and the Bible;
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Geikie, John C. (John Cunningham), 1824-1906
Subjects: Bible Palestine -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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bej^ond m\ reading, to tellwho it was that each was intended to immortalize. But the wearershave all, long since, gone on a longer journey than that which broughtthem here. A wall on the east side of this many-pillared square space runs acrossaisles and nave alike; the former ending here, though the nave reallyextends be3ond this line to the east end of the church, which is roundedinto a projecting half-circle, or apse: the secret chamber of the Greekaltar and choir, for in Greek worship both are hidden from the con-gregation by a screen. This apsidal end, v/ith two similar semicirclesat the two ends of the transept, gives the shape of a Latin cross to thewhole building. The ends show some remains of very old mosaics,which merit close study as illustrations of ancient Christian ideas. Inthat at the south side, Christ is entering into Jerusalem, riding on anass, and accompanied by a disciple, the other figures of His escortbeing destroyed. People who have come out from the city to meet
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Mother of Pearl workers in Betlilehem (making beads for rosaries.) (See page 355.) XIX.): BETHLEHEM. 259 Ilim spread their garments in tlic way; one man is climbinfr a tree, tocut oft branches with which to (1m llim honoi, and a woman, with achild sitting on her left slioulder, looks on. At the north side, St.Thomas is being invited by our Saviour to examine llis wounds, buthere, and also in the liagment of another mosaic, he and his lellow-apostles are represented without a nimbus, or ring of glory, round thehead. In one part, the Virgin Mary is sitting between two angels. But tliesc ancient glories are apt to be overlooked in the bla/^c ofcomparatively modern si)lendor with which the Greeks have lilled thissacred s(K)t. Ihe pillars, with rich Corinthian capitals, are ornamentedwith large pictures of saints. Six low steps lead to a raised floor,before the east end of the nave, which is hidden by an elaborate screenabout twenty-tliree feet high, with a decorated cross, some sacredpict

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