agonies of the children, and the terror and despair of their parents. Other memorials 
point out the traditional scenes of the history of the Nativity. Joseph has an Altar in one 
of the excavations, and a second Altar designates the spot where he sat, meditating,' 
during the birth of our Lord. 
But, passing by those legends: the whole scene is full of high recollections to 
the Christian.—Here was the place of unquestioned miracle, the display of indescribable 
mercy; the beginning of a period which shall finish only in Glory and Eternity. 
