Identifier: holylandbible01geikuoft (find matches)
Title: The Holy Land and the Bible;
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Geikie, John C. (John Cunningham), 1824-1906
Subjects: Bible Palestine -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Ptolemais, mentioned inthe chronicles of the Maccabees.^ But to Christians it is most famousas the place at which St. Paul landed when he went up to Jerusalemfor the last time, saluting the brethren then in the town, and stajnngwith them a day.* In the time of the Crusaders, Acre flourished,though less when they first held it for eighty years, before it waswrested from them by Saladin in 1189, than after its recapture, as theprize of a two years siege, by Coeur de Lion in 1191. From that dateit remained for exactly a hundred years the centre of Christian powerin the Holy Land. The court of the kings, and the seat of the Patri-archate, were here; and by their names the streets indicated that menof many nationalities came to this great mart, for they were calledafter Pisa, Eome, Genoa, Venice, Florence and Paris. The story ofits splendor is told in the Roman chronicles of the Crusades, but it fell1 Deut. xxxiii. 19. 2 Judg. i. 31. 3 1 Mace. v. 15; x. 1; xii. 45. i Acts xxi. 7. V:\\ W1M
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