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... Christians Dissensions and degrading Superstitions The Imposture of the Holy Fire Feuds of the rival Communions I. Orientals . 1. The Greeks The Orthodox Patriarch Election of the Patriarch Cyril Great Monastery of S. Constantine The ...
... Christians Dissensions and degrading Superstitions The Imposture of the Holy Fire Feuds of the rival Communions I. Orientals . 1. The Greeks The Orthodox Patriarch Election of the Patriarch Cyril Great Monastery of S. Constantine The ...
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... Christians on the questions under dis- cussion . I will illustrate this by reference to a point of some little importance , though not immediately connected with the present subject . In 1842 ( October 7th and 8th ) I visited Beit ...
... Christians on the questions under dis- cussion . I will illustrate this by reference to a point of some little importance , though not immediately connected with the present subject . In 1842 ( October 7th and 8th ) I visited Beit ...
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... Christian quarter ( Hâret en - Nasara ) , on the N.W .; the Mohammedan quarter ( Haret el - Muslimîn ) , on the ... Christians the " Castle of David . " The open space about it , on the North and East , was for- merly " the Corn ...
... Christian quarter ( Hâret en - Nasara ) , on the N.W .; the Mohammedan quarter ( Haret el - Muslimîn ) , on the ... Christians the " Castle of David . " The open space about it , on the North and East , was for- merly " the Corn ...
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... Christian quarter3 . The parallelogram formed by the Streets of the Patriarch and St Stephen , West and East , and the Streets of David and the Holy Sepulchre , South and North , is divided into almost equal parts by Palm Street ...
... Christian quarter3 . The parallelogram formed by the Streets of the Patriarch and St Stephen , West and East , and the Streets of David and the Holy Sepulchre , South and North , is divided into almost equal parts by Palm Street ...
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... Christians and Mahommedans , and never in one instance did I receive the name which Frank travellers now give it . The Pool of the Bath , or the Pool of the Holy Sepulchre , are the only names by which they know it . On what authority ...
... Christians and Mahommedans , and never in one instance did I receive the name which Frank travellers now give it . The Pool of the Bath , or the Pool of the Holy Sepulchre , are the only names by which they know it . On what authority ...
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