BETHLEHEM
A CHRISTMAS PILGRIMAGE RACIAL DIFFERENCES FORGOTTEN. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. JERUSALEM, December 27. One thousand pilgrims from all parts of tho world in motor cars joined a pilgrimage from Jerusalem to tho shrine at Bethlehem, Led by Greek and Roman Catholic patriarchs, Orient joined with Occident, and Jew with Gentile, while the Arabs and Jews, who are usually at daggers drawn, forgot their differences ancTjoined in the journey. The pilgrims all day on Saturday and Sunday crowded the basilica in the grotto, which was lighted by fifteen lamps, four representing the Latin Church, five the Armenian Church, and six the Greek Church. Following Mass on Friday at midnight, the patriarchs led the congregation through the basilica, depositing an image of tho infant Christ upon a manger at the exact spot where He was born.
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Evening Star, Issue 19443, 29 December 1926, Page 5
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