”TEN MEASURES OF BEAUTY DESCENDED TO THE WORLD, NINE WERE TAKEN BY JERUSALEM“
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and local fauna, were rediscovered in the 1930s. They are from a later Byzantine church, built in 480 AD and destroyed by the Persians early in the seventh century. The second church at Tabgha, the Primacy of St. Peter, commemorates the event mentioned in the 21st chapter of the Book of John, of Simon Peter’s being the first to spy the resurrected Jesus as He stood and called His disciples from the opposite Sea of Galilee shores as they were casting their fishing nets. It was here, the New Testament tells us, that Jesus instructed Peter and his colleagues, who had been unsuccessful in their fishing endeavors, to cast their nets on the other side of the boat, where they immediately hauled in a catch of 153 fish. It was also at this same time that Jesus instructed Peter to “feed my sheep.” Not far from Capernaum, and also fronting the Sea of Galilee, the Magdala Center, the newest Sea of Galilee attraction, is of particular relevance to Catholic visitors, though of interest to the general public as well, serving as a crossroads of Jewish and Christian history. It is located at Migdal, on land where archeological excavations prior to the center’s development unearthed a first-century AD synagogue where Jesus probably preached, and is being developed to offer visitors an experience of first
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