[SunkenCiv]

AA photo

[MUDDOG]

With bunkers like that, they never should’ve lost Anatolia to the Turks.

[cloudmountain]

I've been to those caves of Cappadocia. It's where the first Christians hid out. It was on a tour of the Holy Land with Steve and Janet Ray, former Baptist evangelical minister who believed that all us Catholics were going straight to hell. Since he is a good man, he didn't want that, so he decided to evangelize Catholics.

So, he and his wife read up on Catholicism for a YEAR. At the end of the year he and his wife were WEEPING on the living room floor: "Oh no! We're Catholics!" They both converted and there is NO fervor like that of a convert.
He wrote a book called Crossing The Tiber, the story of their conversion.

His tours are FABULOUS.
I remember weeping at His tomb and still get all snerfy remembering when my friend and I entered Jesus' tomb. We were allowed to stay two minutes. I laid my rosary down on His tomb.
Since the Romans took down the hill of Calvary, (because too many pilgrims were going and staying there) it's all flat now and the site of His Cross is only several yards from His Tomb. It's just TOO much to think about and realize.

I think that every Christian ought to save his pennies and try to visit the Holy Land.

[Larry Lucido]

Archaeologist Semih Istanbulluoglu,

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Istanbulluoglu, not Constantinopolluoglu.