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Title: The home of fadeless splendour: or, Palestine of today
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Whittingham, George Napier, 1865-
Subjects: Palestine -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Hutchinson
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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. The Arabs, howe\-er,still speak of Christians as Nostrani in the singular, and Nasarain tlie plural. Nazareth has experienced many vicissitudes, and the tempestsof war have often broken into this secluded valley; so much sothat not one stone of the town known to our Lord remains to-day.Until the time of Constantine it continued to be a Jewish town,but later a splendid Basilica was built on the spot where theAngel appeared to Mary, and the house where Mary dweltwould have been known to generations of Jews, partly becauseof their hatred of the Christians, and also owing to the venerationof the Christians for these sacred places. The VenerableBede tells of Nazareth in his treatise. Liber nominum locorum exActis : Nazareth is a little village not far from Mount Tabor;it is from it that our Saviour was called a Nazarite. A churchstands where the angel entered to announce to Mary the greatnews, and another on the spot where our Lord was brought up. 1 St. John i. 46. « St. Matthew ii. 23.
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2f 07. HH a:< THE GLORIES OF GALILEE 257 St. Willibald, who visited Nazareth in 725, found the BasiHcaof the Annunciation, and says : The Christians often boughtback this church from the Pagans (Saracens) when these latterwished to destroy it, From 1100 onwards, historic events seem to have followedeach other in rapid succession. On Tancred taking possessionof Gahlee after the conquest of Jerusalem by the Crusaders, theBasilica was rebuilt and used as a cathedral, but in 1187,after the battle of Hattin, the Christians were driven out. Later,in 1250, the Sultan concluded a treaty with St. Louis, King ofFrance, by which Nazareth and other towns were given back tothe Christians ; but not for long, for the Bibars came up fromEgypt and encamped with a great army on Mount Tabor, fromwhence troops were sent out to destroy all churches and convents.Christians were promised safety from death if they embracedIslam, but preferring death to apostasy they were martyred andtheir bodies cast into

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