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Show MADELYN CANNON STEWART SILVER 232 ate lunch. At Caesarea Apostle Peter baptized the Centurion, Cornelius. The two traveled south and east through Jezreel Valley (Armageddon) to Megiddo, to see the ruins of twenty civiliza tions piled atop each other. Madelyn's film shows Safad, "the city on a hill which cannot be hid," of the Bible. south and west of the Sea of Galilee and Further south, just of Mount Carmel, half-way between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean, was Nazareth. Nazareth is the place from mother came, the place where Joseph and Mary which Jesus' lived during his childhood, an old but insignificant by Jewish village. In Nazareth Madelyn and Harold tradition, agricultural Carpenter, Church of the Annunciation, and a watering place called "Mary's Well." The Galilean village of Cana, where Jesus performed the wedding found the Church of the feast miracle, was thought to be located a few miles north of Nazareth. The Silvers tried to visualize the path Jesus may have taken the fifteen miles from Nazareth to the Sea of Galilee. Six miles southeast of Nazareth is Mount Tabor, notable in biblical and Roman times and believed by some to be the Mount of Transfiguration. While they were in northern Palestine the Silvers went to where there Haifa, a principal seaport for millennia; to Acre, of name Arab Qi-Sarya, were Crusader ruins; and to Caesarea, Roman cap the and Samaria of coast the on ancient an seaport ital of Palestine. Fifty-five miles northwest of Jerusalem, site of an Caesarea was founded by Herod the Great. It was the the New in mentioned Christian church and is frequently early the years Testament. Haifa, anciently Sycaminum, had grown in oil before the Silvers' visit because of the installation of just Mediterranean. Haifa was important pipelines from Iraq to the in the new state of Israel. hill coun A strip of land extending west from the Samaritan Mediterranean and south to Mount Carmel is try west to the Carmel. Mount Carmel is the entrance to the Jezreel Valley which rises above the harbor at Haifa and was a (Esdraelon), fertile valley land. Mount Carmel was strategic position for the the scene of the contest between Elijah and the four hundred |
