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Friday, February 16, 2018

A Crusader-Era High Altar Resurfaces in Jerusalem's Holy Sepulcher

The victorious knights immediately ejected the GREEK Orthodox clergy, whom they suspected of both heresy and complicity with Islamic rulers (the eastern and western churches had split in 1054). They then seized control of the city's other sites sacred to Jews and Muslims as well as Christians, ...


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