. The home of fadeless splendour: or, Palestine of today . vid no longer existed, whereas the western hillhad now become the most important part of the city. Two other facts of interest date from this period : theChristians believed that the great Tower built by King Herod,and left intact by Titus, had formed part of a palace of KingDavid, and thus it is commonly called the Tower of David tothis day; also from about this time the Christians would seemto have regarded the very site of the Jewish Temple with muchaversion, and as a natural result the Christian Church becamemore widely separated f
. The home of fadeless splendour: or, Palestine of today . vid no longer existed, whereas the western hillhad now become the most important part of the city. Two other facts of interest date from this period : theChristians believed that the great Tower built by King Herod,and left intact by Titus, had formed part of a palace of KingDavid, and thus it is commonly called the Tower of David tothis day; also from about this time the Christians would seemto have regarded the very site of the Jewish Temple with muchaversion, and as a natural result the Christian Church becamemore widely separated from its Jewish origin, and even chose asthe first Bishop of ^lia Capitolina, Mark, who was a Greek bynationality. Events followed in rapid succession; the Roman colony wasdestroyed, the city of Jerusalem built again, churches werecompleted only to be demolished and then re-built. Nearly eighthundred years after the conversion of Constantine to Christianity,the first Crusade was launched against the infidel, in whichGodfrey de Bouillon captured SlO-N-D *. ; VkZirv cf hfuirunn C First WilLSccOTuL WiU (.cxL&tingwaiL) j^or 7/u X*-»n<in nujruraJji 1-lS JUnctr theStatLons crn, t^c \ix DcLrrciX fwbailx CK Cfnz\ , i^ Sw^c the Cfinitun. cnz m^ najrteSicn kas been. ^ivf«n tc i^ 5 W Ac/^. d J<7c7<V C4 JcoZ^ _£/-- A PLAN OP ANCIENT JERUSALEM {To J ace page 38. WITHIN THE HOLY CITY 39 Gerusalemmc Liberata, Jerusalem Delivered, such was thetitle Torqiiato Tasso gave to the poem which he wrote in lionourof Godfrey de Bouillon and the warriors of the first the poem was written nearly four hundred years after, andTasso knew too well that the deliverance was but for a shorttime. Now after four hundred years of bondage Jerusalem isdelivered once and for ever from the Turk. The last stronghold of the Crusaders, Acre, fell in 1291, andwith its fall ended the short and ill-fated Christian already in 1244 the Latin Kingdom of J
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