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Living TRAVEL
- Middle East 1965 |
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 Looking North, from the tower of the Lutheran Church |
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 Looking South |
 Looking West |
 Looking East, we see the famous Dome of the Rock - and below |
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 The Garden of Gethsemane, Mount of Olives |
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 Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives |
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 Ecce Homo ("Behold the Man") convent, museum and boarding house* |
 The Wailing Wall |
 Damascus Gate |
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Re-enacting the biblical procession with the
cross along the Via Dolorosa - "the Way of the Cross" |
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 Chapel of the Flagellation Inside pictures below - day, and night |
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Outside picture above from http://www.christusrex.org/www1/jvc/TVCstatn02.html
Built in the twelfth century, the Chapel of the Flagellation has suffered many
avatars since the pilgrims' reports mention it as a refuse dump, a stable and
a weaver's shop. Such profanation did not diminish the pilgrims' piety, many
of them felt obliged to fall on their knees before the door of the former
sanctuary, which was usually closed. According to a sinister legend current in
the 16th century, the interior echoed with the crack of whips, by which, in a
sordid cell, those who had whipped Jesus were themselves whipped. |
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 Kedron Valley - Jerusalem |
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Other Jordan - 1965 |
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 Bethlehem - Church of the Nativity |
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 Solomon's Pools - near Bethlehem |
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 Mosaic Worker, Bethlehem |
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 Jordan River, traditional site of Jesus' baptism |
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 Jericho |
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 Sycamore trees in Jericho (remind us of Zaccheus) |
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 Mount of Temptation - near Jericho |
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 Jerash Forum (north of Amman) - and below |
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 Jerash - Temple of Artemis |
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 Dead Sea (Jordan 1965) |
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 Qumran Cave Number 4, near Dead Sea and Jericho |
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