The Christmas city

by Lewis Gaston Leary

Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1911

THIS LITTLE BOOK ABOUT THE
CITY OF DIVINE MOTHERHOOD
IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
TO MY OWN MOTHER

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

		PAGE
	The Charter of Pre-eminence	[17]
I	The Welcome to Bethlehem	[21]
II	The Grave by the Roadside	[25]
III	The Girl From Beyond Jordan	[35]
IV	The Boy Who Was to be King	[43]
V	The Adventure of the Well	[51]
VI	The Night of Nights	[59]
VII	The Blossoms of Martyrdom	[67]
VIII	The Story of the Stable	[73]
IX	The Epitaph of the Lady Paula	[83]
X	The Scholar in the Cave	[93]
XI	The Christmas Coronation	[105]
XII	Some Bethlehem Legends	[117]
XIII	The Long White Road	[129]
XIV	The House of Bread	[145]
XV	The Church Which is a Fort	[155]
XVI	The Sacred Caves	[165]
XVII	The Guard of the Silver Star	[175]
XVIII	The Song of the Kneeling Women	[181]
XIX	Across the Ages	[187]

ILLUSTRATIONS

ILLUSTRATIONS

Holy Night, from the painting by Zenisek	Frontispiece
	PAGE
The Tomb of Rachel	[31]
The Church of the Nativity	[79]
The South Transept of the Church of the Nativity and one of the Stairways leading down to the Sacred Caves	[97]
St. Jerome and the Lion	[123]
The Bethlehem Road	[133]
Bethlehem Girls	[137]
Bethlehem	[149]
Interior of the Church of the Nativity	[161]
The Altar of the Nativity	[169]