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Israel & Jordan 2023: Bethlehem, part 2

From the main floor of the Church of Nativity, we went out a door on the side of the the nave and came out into a long hallway that leads to a little courtyard that opens into the Church of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, which is the church where the Christmas Midnight Mass is held. A side note, where I grew up the town's patron saint (yes, we have that) and the main church is also called St. Catherine of Alexandria, so I was quite tickled to say the least that the church's name here is St. Catherine of Alexandria (and not Sienna which I thought was more popular). I thought it was fate. Honestly, I had no clue about the name, zilch. Restored medieval cloister. The small courtyard and the front of the church. This is the site where Jesus appeared before St. Catherine in the 4th century and predicted her martyrdom. Tickets for the Christmas Eve mass are available for free, but one has to make reservations way ahead of time and whoever is on the ticket is the one al

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