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Athens, like Jerusalem, is a city so rich in antiquity that an archaeologist-or anyone else-has only to dig to uncover treasures of a golden age gone by a few weeks ago, a crew of Athenian sewer diggers ripping up the pavement of Aeolou Street, in Athens' financial district, broke into a group of 30 ancient graves only six feet below street level. The find dated from about 500 B.C. Lifted reverently from the graves were many pyxides, the small, handsomely ornamented pottery jars in which women of the day kept cosmetics and other personal treasures. One pyxis...
...confessions are the doctrine of predestination and the nature of the Lord's Supper. To Lutherans, Christ is truly present in the bread and wine of the Eucharist; Reformed churches more commonly think of the Communion service as a memorial to Christ's Last Supper in Jerusalem...
Lugging his heavy cross, a convict was toiling up the steep street of Jerusalem that led to the hill of execution. He paused once, and would have rested against one of the houses. But the householder, standing in the doorway, told the convict to move on. He had seen plenty of such criminals on the way to crucifixion, and he did not think that they needed coddling. This one, though, turned and laid a curse on him: he was condemned to walk the earth through the centuries, yearning for death...
Among them is Tobias, an unbeliever, who has felt himself somehow impelled to embark upon a pilgrimage to Jerusalem on behalf of an unknown woman whom he had found dead with the stigmata-the marks of the Crucifixion. Attached to Tobias is Diana, a once beautiful woman turned promiscuous slattern, who ridicules the idea of the pilgrimage and tags along only to be with him. Ahasuerus joins them, and the three unbelievers set out on a strange, symbolic pilgrimage several days' journey behind the other pilgrims...
None of the three reach Jerusalem, but each seems to find his own Holy Land by committing himself blindly and with love...