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BETHLEHEM 1961

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from Page 8

Moslem policemen, stationed in the Church even in thus century, have been seen to pray on that same spot, For there entered then into the story uí the caye and its attendan! faithful a complication that has lasted to this day: remaining the holiest spot in Christendom, under Moslem rule.

Out of necessity, a kind of working co-existence evolved. Moslems respected the birtz- place of Jesus too. They could pray in a Church cleaned and tended by Christians, even if they tried to change it too.

But things were quieter, for a time, in Bethlehem In 808 Charlemagne found that the four monasteries of Justinian's time had dwindled to 15 marks, priests and clerks. and two followers of St Simeon Stylites who sat on pillars,

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THE MIRACLE OF MIRACLES.

German representation of the Notivity.

In the Eleventh Century, the cave escaped widespread razing Christian buildings by a fanatical Egyptian ruler.

There

exultant were

days when the Crusaders the again

floor. The removal of In 1869 a disastrous are in swept down on Palestine; when marble from the Church to the cave destroyed all its rich Tancred, captain of 100 swift- Moslem shrines, from 1517, was furnishings and hangings, and mounted knights, clattered into openly allowed,

most of what remained of the the little town of

During paeans of

the 17th and 18th mediaeval mosaic ceiling. and psalm-singing,

returned led Centuries was

pilgrims with frightening into church

of triumphantly

storles gaze on the Manger.

ruthless robbery and exploitation in Bethlehem.

The cave survived looting by the Saracens that left Bethlehem hardly habitable;

+ catastrophip battle that placed it back

Moslem hands; and dreadful pillage

A wild horde of Kharls-

Tarks.

by

mian

Under Turkish rule, the cave endured exploitation of its very holiness, and fomentation of

The matter of ownership of the Holy Places, and of the rights of access and worship between sects, became In- creasingly and dangerously political.

QUARRELS

And when the great Crimean small differences between sexts, War erupted last century, one for commercial gain.

of the main issues concerned The fabric of the Church the mysterious theft one night was allowed to decay until of the silver star set in marble collapse threatened, and pigeons beneath the Altar of the fluttered and left droppings on Nativity.

A dividing wall had to be built inside the Church, and the door opening reduced In size, to prevent Moslems from driving in sheep, goats and even camels.

over until after the Armenian version on January 19 and the Greek on January 27.

It Bometimes needed a bat- talion of 1,000 Turkish soldiers keep stationed in the town to the Christmas peace.

In 1828 there were reports of an unseemly quarrel between priests, over the arrangement of timetables for services, that ended in the shedding of blood: on the Manger of Christ.

cen-

Between priests of different sects, whose afteen lamps burs

More recently, as this always over the altar, many tury's British Mandate ended, bitter quarrel has Bethlehem saw machine-guns marred

the spot where the bristling from flat roofs over the Prince of Peace was born. There Church and its cave at Christ-

has been haggling Over strips of mas. carpet, over the number of times incense might be burned, over the parts of the Church each sect might clean.

But It is Christmas again, and there are still pilgrims Grotto that has stood unimpair- the

ed through centuries of spoila- tion, battle and conquest. There never was, a not enduring miracle..

Christmas in Bethlehem be- came a protracted affair that began with the Latin celebration on December 25, and was

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