Identifier: oeroceanscontine01blat (find matches)
Title: O'er oceans and continents with the setting sun. 3d series: Jerusalem, Palestine in Bedouin garb, Syria and the islands of the Mediterranean, Smyrna, Constantinople, Athens, Corfu
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Blatter, George J. (George John), 1861-
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Publisher: Chicago, Author's edition
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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n no bitterness, but only inorder to give vent to my feeling of regret that SaintPeters memory should be thus loaded with insult. DoProtestants owe nothing to Saint Peter, the head of theapostles ? In the morning of the last Sunday of our stay inJerusalem, Mahomet, our favorite driver, stood readywith his carriage in order to take us out to Ain Karem,the birthplace of St. John and the scene of the visitationof the Blessed Virgin. Lustily he rattled on to the gateof Damascus, scattering the laggard foot-passengers toright and left. A few miles out the scenery becomesquite pleasing, especially toward the valley that runs inthe direction of Bethlehem. The road winds down thehillside, supported by a high embankment, and AinKarem presented a very cheerful sight, with its neathouses, its eight or ten churches, some of them over-topped by high steeples. On the spot where Mary firstmet Elizabeth on her visit, the Franciscans are in chargeof a fine church and monastery. High mass was going 118
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Ain Karem. on when we entered. At the end a procession withthe blessed Sacrament was held, in which the nativesjoined, singing the Te Deum in Arabic. To the left ofthe high altar is the crypt and sanctuary, the meetingplace of the Mother of God with her cousin Elizabeth.Here for the first time resounded the sublimest of allanthems, the Magnificat, and from that blessed tongue,which also first made our Salvation secure by acceptingthe proposals of the heavenly father. Farther down in the valley the road passes a pictur-esque fountain that sends forth an abundant stream.Beyond, on the opposite hill, a new chapel and conventis built upon the excavated walls of older structures,marking the birthplace of St. John. Next to the altarin the chapel is the well of St. Elizabeth, of miraculousorigin, and, in an opening in the wall to the right, a smallcave is shown as the hiding place of St. John and hismother during the slaughter of the innocents by Herod.The cliffs overhanging the convent are

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