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Title: Cairo, Jerusalem, and Damascus:
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Margoliouth, David Samuel, 1858-1940. (from old catalog) Tyrwhitt, Walter Spencer-Stanhope, 1859-1932, (from old catalog) illus
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Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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l for sick pilgrims andfinished the Church of the Virgin w^hich the Patri-arch Elias had begun. Twelve years were occupiedin the érection of this édifice, of which contemporarywriters speak in enthusiastic terms. The platformon the Temple area selected for the building not be-ing large enough, it was artificially increased byarches on substructures. New methods were de-vised for bringing stones and columns of a size vastenough for the building contemplated. The hospi-tal was to contain 200 beds, and substantial revenueswere settled upon it. The Church of St. Mary in some way escaped de-struction, when in 614 the nearer East was invadedby Chosroes—that last dying exploit of the SassanianEmpire, whose days were numbered. The Churchof the Holy Sepulchre was not equally fortunate, asit, with ail its contents, was burnt to the ground.The malice of the Persian invaders is said to hâvebeen directed by Jews, who, as usual, were destinedto reap no permanent advantage from the catas- (320)
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JERUSALEM: AN HISTORICAL SKETCH trophe. If the figures of the historians are to betrusted, the massacre efïected by the Persians musthâve been on as great a scale as any of the events ofthe kind witnessed by Jérusalem; 90,000 Christiansof both sexes are said to hâve perished, and 65,000corpses were presently gathered and deposited in asingle cave outside the Western Gâte. The news of this terrible blow to the ByzantineEmpire penetrated into Arabia, where the ProphetMohammed, still at Meccah, foretold that thePersian victory would shortly be foUowed by a de-feat. The rebuilding of the Church of the HolySepulchre appears to hâve commenced almost as soonas the Persians had departed, the name of Modestus,superior of the monastery of Theodosius, being con-nected with this restoration, which took ten years toaccomplish. Mohammeds prophecy was fulfilledfourteen years after its occasion, and in 628 the con-queror Heraclius visited the city on pilgrimage, andthe part taken by the Jews in

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