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...riots and the "Massacre of Salacos," Greek newspapers last week had an even more startling story to follow it. The Greek Orthodox Church has in its guardianship the third of three temples of which all Christendom is jealous: the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, and the Monastery of St. John in Patmos, one of the northernmost of the Dodecanese Islands.* On Patmos John is supposed to have hidden in a cave and received the vision of the Apocalypse (''The Book of Revelation''). The monastery on the site was built there...
...foot save when waters are to be crossed. Begging as they go, the Buddhists expect to take two years in reaching Rome. Their twelve leaders will be called "Lions" because they think they will need lion hearts in such troublous spots as Mecca and Jerusalem. They will preach vegetarianism. "Westerners," said Bhikkhu, "make graveyards of themselves on account of the innocent animals they kill...
...when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. . . . They departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.-Matthew...
...Babylon and Susa, whence came the Wise Men, Saturn was visible at the time of Christ's birth only in the first week in April. Travelling westward, the Wise Men would have seen it overhead between Oct. 10 and Dec. 15 as they proceeded to Bethlehem from Jerusalem. For their arrival at the house of Joseph and Mary, Professor Gerhardt selects a middle date, Nov. 5. Jesus would then have been seven months...
Elsewhere throughout the world are other famed relics of Christ, many supposedly discovered by St. Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine, who set out in 326 to find Christ's tomb and the True Cross. In Jerusalem she found the Holy Sepulchre, built a basilica on the spot. She met a Jew named Judas (later St. Cyriacus) who showed her a ditch containing three crosses. When one of the crosses cured a sick woman, pious Helena sought no further. To Constantinople she sent the cross, three nails and the Holy Tunic now at Argenteuil. To Trier she sent...