ISRAEL: GUIDE TO SITES ONCE WALKED BY JESUS AROUND SEA OF GALILIEE THAT POPE JOHN PAUL II WILL VISIT AS PART OF HIS HOLY LAND PILGRIMAGE

Record ID: 399130

  • Title: ISRAEL: GUIDE TO SITES ONCE WALKED BY JESUS AROUND SEA OF GALILIEE THAT POPE JOHN PAUL II WILL VISIT AS PART OF HIS HOLY LAND PILGRIMAGE
  • Date: 1st March 2000
  • Summary: KORAZIM, ISRAEL 1. AERIALS RUINS OF THE SMALL TOWN OF KORAZIM 0.11 2. AERIAL RUINS OF ANCIENT SYNAGOGUE 0.21 CAPERNAUM, ISRAEL 3. AERIAL CAPERNAUM/AERIALS EXPOSED RUINS OF A BUILDING DATING FROM THE 1ST CENTURY BC 0.40 4. AERIAL BIRDS FLYING OVER SEA OF GALILEE 0.46 SEA OF GALILLE, ISRAEL 5. VARIOUS: BOAT CARRYI
  • Embargoed: 16th March 2000 12:00
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  • Location: KORAZIM, MOUNT OF BEATITUDES, TABGHA AND CAPERNAUM, ISRAEL
  • Country: Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVAA5PD58LTJ8ZSF4M9Z6PIDVW46
  • Story Text: Pope John Paul is to walk in the footsteps of Jesus's
    ministry around the Sea of Galilee on Friday (March 23).

    The Pope will hold a mass for an expected 100,000
    worshippers, at an open-air site with breathtaking views over
    the Mount of Beatitudes and the Sea of Galilee.

    Following is a guide to the religious sites that
    the Pope will visit during his historic journey in the
    footsteps of Jesus around the Sea of Galilee.

    KORAZIM - The mass site, is near the small town of
    Korazim.The new Testament mentions Korazim as a place where
    Jesus preached and later cursed because its inhabitants
    rejected his teachings.

    MOUNT OF BEATITUDES - A tree-covered rise just above the
    northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee, this is where
    tradition holds that Jesus preached the Sermon on the Mount.

    Its verses all begin "Blessed are..." Visited by Pope Paul VI
    in 1964, the site has an Italian-built church dating from 1937
    and tranquil gardens looking out over the lake.The Pope will
    meet Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak at a hospice on the
    site run by Franciscan nuns.

    TABGHA - Just down from the Mount of Beatitudes in Tabgha
    on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, this is the site
    Christians revere as the place where Jesus performed the
    miracle of the loaves and fishes.A church built of Jerusalem
    stone in 1982 and run by German Benedictine monks stands on
    the site where Jesus is said to have taken five loaves and two
    fishes and multiplied them to feed 5,000 people.A small rock
    on which tradition holds that the miracle occurred juts out
    beneath the altar.The Pope will pay a private visit to the
    church.

    CAPERNAUM - Also on the Sea of Galilee in the ancient
    settlement of Capernaum, this is the traditional site of the
    house of the disciple Peter.The Pope will pay a private visit
    to view the exposed ruins of a building dating from the 1st
    century BC that is purported to be the dwelling and the
    remains of early Christian churches.A concrete church built
    in 1990 is built on a platform over the ruins.Capernaum is
    the town where
    Jesus moved from Nazareth and was the hub of his ministry.The
    ruins of a 3rd century synagogue built of white limestone
    stand in view of the House of Saint Peter.
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