Jerusalem, the city of Herod and Saladin . SEA OF GALILEE. As for the wood of the Holy Cross, a very old storyis told. Some years after the battle of Tiberiashad been fought and lost, it is said that a brotherof the Temple came to Henry, Count of Cham-pagne, and told him that, in order to save it fromfalling into the hands of the Saracens, he had him-self buried it with his own hands, and that he knewwhere to look for it. He took with him certainmen to help in digging, and they searched for three 392 JERUSALEM. consecutive nights, but failed to find it. So, that for atime, there was an end of
Jerusalem, the city of Herod and Saladin . SEA OF GALILEE. As for the wood of the Holy Cross, a very old storyis told. Some years after the battle of Tiberiashad been fought and lost, it is said that a brotherof the Temple came to Henry, Count of Cham-pagne, and told him that, in order to save it fromfalling into the hands of the Saracens, he had him-self buried it with his own hands, and that he knewwhere to look for it. He took with him certainmen to help in digging, and they searched for three 392 JERUSALEM. consecutive nights, but failed to find it. So, that for atime, there was an end of one mischievous impostureat least. And now the highest ambition of Saladin was to becrowned with success. Of all the holy places of hisreligion, only one was more sacred than Jerusalem. Itwas destined for him to restore that sacred Dome of theRock, which Abdel Melek had built, to the purposes forwhich it was built, and to remove from the midst of theMohammedan Empire that hornets nest of Christianswhich, for nearly a hundred years, had ch
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