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The Arab village of Kafr Kanna (Cana) in Galilee, northern Israel. According to the gospel of St John it was at a wedding here that Jesus turned water into wine for the guests.
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Mosaic at the foot of the altar in Tabgha Church, Lower Galilee in Israel. According to Christian tradition, it is the site of the desert place where Jesus fed a multitude of more than 5,000 followers with only five loaves and two fishes.

Region of northern Israel (once a Roman province in Palestine) that includes Nazareth and Tiberias, frequently mentioned in the Gospels of the New Testament.

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In architecture, a term for a porch or chapel attached to a church. They were used sometimes as the area reserved for penitents, sometimes for corpses prior to burial, and at other times as the meeting ground for monks and their women relatives, who might not penetrate farther into a monastic church. In England, examples may still be seen at the west end of the naves in Ely and Durham cathedrals, and on the west side of the south transept in Lincoln Cathedral.



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