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structure; although all of them relate the 
tradition concerning St. Joachim and St. Anne. 
Marinus Sanutus, in his brief account of the 
city, speaks of the great beauty of its fortress*, 
but takes no notice of the temple. It is only as 
we approach nearer to our own times, that 
these stately remains obtain any notice in 
the writings of travellers who have visited the 
Hohj Land. Douhdans work is perhaps the first 
publication in which they are mentioned. He 
passed through SepJioury in the middle of the 
seventeenth century, but was prevented halting, 
in consequence of the evil disposition of the 
inhabitants towards the Christians^. As no 
author more patiently, or more faithfully, con- 
centrated the evidences of former writers, if 
any record had existed upon the subject, it 
would at least have had a reference in Douhdans 
valuable work : he contents himself, however, 
with barely mentioning the desolated condition 
of the town, and the ruins of its church ^ 
(t) " De Nazareth ad diias leucas est Sephorum, unde beata Anna 
traxit originem : oppidum istnid habet desuper castrum vald^ pul- 
chrum : ind^ Joachim ortus dicitur," Marini Sanuti Secreta Fideliiim 
Crucis, lib. iii. pars 14. cap. T> 
(5) Voy. de la Terre Sainte, p. 588. Par. 16j7. 
(6) " A present la viUe est toiite combine de ruines, et sur la cime 
de la montagne, qui n'est pas haute, on voit encore un reste de basti- 
meut d'une (^s^lise qui avoit estd viXiMz ;i la place de la maison d« 
Saiiict Joachim et Sainte Anne." Jlid. 
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