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- In Israel, the war memorials are young trees.

- Those are counted.

- They amount to 6 million as 6 million Jews died, the victims of Nazi persecutions.

- And because it is located at the same distance of this martyrs’ forest and the Golgotha, Jerusalem is clearly the capital of suffering.

- And for both those sufferings, those passions, Jesus Christ’s and the persecuted Jews’ to be without any doubt more sensitive Jerusalem has now been split in half.

- The new town on one side, in Isreal, and the old town in Jordan on the other side.

- Today a border would prevent Jesus Christ from crossing.

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- This church tower, those sand bags, are in Israel.

- The Jordan soldiers are located 30 meters away, in this house.

- This Benedictine brother can come close to the cenacle.

- It is under this dome on the left that Jesus Christ had his last meal but the Mount of Olives is opposite the barbed wire, here it is.

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- The path that takes you there is surrounded by concrete anti-tank blocks.

- And the Mandelbaum that opens on Jordan and the Holy Sepulchre is concrete-made.

- No way it opens.

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- Only, towards the Holy Sepulchre, a narrow door sometimes allows some pilgrims get through.

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- Jesus Christ’s childhood is more accessible.

- No border blocks the road to Nazareth.

- There, His Grace Hakim of Galilee guided us for you.

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- From the terrace of you seminary, Your Grace, we can see almost all Galilee holy places.

- Please, could you point at them?

- Well, you can see right there, a bit in the distance, Mount Tabor, that is where Our Lord’s Transfiguration took place.

- And that is where our Lord showed his divinity in its humanity in front of his abashed apostles, Peter, James and John.

- Right in front of you, you have Nazareth with the two main recordings of Nazareth,

- Our Lord’s synagogue, where he prayed as a child, and then right next to it a bit below on the right, you can see the place of the Announciation,

- Archangel appeared to Mary there and told her she would be God’s mother.

- That is where she expressed a bit her hesitation as she wanted to remain a virgin

- and once this objection was dispelled by the angel she agreed to be God’s mother:

- “Here is God’s maid,” she said, “be it done to me according to you Word”.