A cyclopaedia of works of architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant (1895)
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · New York, Scribner's sons · leaf 104
ing crypt,where are shown, directly under the centreof the choir, the cave or grotto in which, itis said, Christ wiis born. Near by is themanger in which he was laid. These parts-of the crypt are lined with marble andlavishly adorned. There is also, convertedinto a chaioel, the chamber where St.… … Fig. 33.—Bethlehem, Ch of the Nativity.Scale of 100 feet. apparently so little changed. Eusebiussays that Helena, visiting the Holy Land,decorated the ])laoe of the Xativity, andthat Constantine built there one of the three splendid edifices that he raised inPalestine. The early writers of the…
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