| Afterwards we visited Ein Karem, the village where John the Baptist was born. Here we visited the Church of St. John, built over the birthplace of John the Baptist, and the Church of the Visitation, built on the site of the home of Elizabeth and Zacharias, John�s parents. It was during the summer before John�s birth that the Virgin Mary came to visit and help care for her cousin Elizabeth. We ended our day with a visit to Yad Vashem, the Jewish Holocaust Museum. |
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| We flew back to Rome very early Thursday morning, March 30. Our pilgrimage to the Holy Land had been amazing; one we will always remember. We truly had walked where Jesus had walked. The quiet times we shared in the same places that Jesus had been will always be our most cherished memories. With our visit we now have a better understanding of Israel. During our stay we saw Moslems and Jews living side by side peacefully. We can only hope that sometime in the future there will be a peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian issue. |