So, hello, beloved sg and favorite blogs! I decided to still talk about my trip to Israel, at the same time attaching photos from my terrible point-and-shoot camera (Edith: there will be no photos, the local Internet is too dull for photos larger than a megabyte). Yesterday was my second day, and that’s what I’ll tell you about now. I’m actually writing all this in the morning, but due to the disabling of all the free networks around (:(), I’m writing offline. But enough about that, let’s get to the story
In Israel, winter does not http://playtoro-casino.co.uk/ exist in our concept. There is no snow or anything like that, but the temperature does not drop below 10 degrees during the day, and the winter months are, of course, the coldest in Israel. You have to pay with constant downpours. It was one of these showers that greeted us when leaving the hotel. So we quickly got into our cozy pavement (we have a small group, so most of the excursions will be on the pavement, but not the cop one :D) and went to the Galilee region (we live in the resort town of Netanya, which is not far from there).
On the way, the rain stopped and we, already in the sun, arrived in the ancient city of Nazareth, probably familiar to many believers. I’ll say right away that my text will contain a lot of religious bullshit (even though I’m not a believer myself), so don’t be offended :D. So, it was in Nazareth that the so-called “Annunciation” took place, when the Archangel Gabriel came to the mother of Jesus and told her that “you will conceive Dark Messiah Son of God!». So, this happened in two different places (like “Oh, some guy came running to me and said some shit, I’ll run home so that he can tell me this again and I’ll believe it)!") and on these two places they built two churches – one Catholic, one Orthodox. Let me make a reservation right away that the Orthodox Christians in Israel are by no means Russian (all Russians who came to Israel came there mainly because of.n. “Right of return”, when you can return to the Promised Land (pathos…), if you have part of the Jewish blood, and you immediately receive citizenship, benefits and all that…), and the Greeks and Muslims, and Nazareth is almost all a Muslim city.
So, let’s finish about the city, let’s start about the shrines. First of all, we visited the Catholic Basilica (or Church, as you wish) of the Annunciation. It was built on the site of the house of Our Lady. Tourists, of course, are not allowed there, everything is closed and all that, but you can see. Around all this, during the times of the Crusaders (12-13 centuries.), a small Franciscan church was built. Then, in 1969, a large luxurious church was built and consecrated by the Pope (built by the same company that built airports…) also Franciscan. During the consecration, the Pope promised the temple super-duper-cool-marble slabs-3000, but he broke off and still hasn’t delivered them. But almost all Christian countries donated mosaics to the temple (except for This Country, well, they didn’t exist). The most expensive mosaics were placed on the second floor of the temple. The most, most expensive, really, is Japanese mosaic. The hands of the Mother of God are made of pearls… in short, expensive: D. Separately, I want to tell you about t.n. pentacles that can be seen in this temple. In fact, this is the emblem of the Franciscans, but later, due to the great popularity of the Franciscan sites on the holy land, it turned into a pilgrimage cross. Thanks to my mother, I am now a pilgrim too >
The second temple is nothing special; it has a second name, “The Source of the Mother of God,” since it was built on a source. There they distribute holy water (yes, yes, holy, of course -_-) and light candles.
Okay, I’m looking at too many bugs here, and I didn’t even tell half of what happened yesterday… I’ll probably post the second part in a separate post and also tell you about the 3rd day, that is, today. Today I am visiting the famous Tel Aviv and the diamond exchange in this very Tel Aviv (kekek)
