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Excerpt from A History of England, Vol. 6: From the Conclusion of the Great War in 1815
More than a century before the Crimean War, France, in a treaty with the Porte, obtained for the Latin Church possession of all the places which it owned in The most important of these were the great Church of Bethlehem, the Sanctuary of the Nativity, the Tomb of the Virgin, the Stone of Anointing, and the Seven Arches of the Virgin in the tomb of the Holy Sepulchre; but the Latins also claimed the right of repairing the Cupola of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.2 The atmos phere of the eighteenth century, however, was opposed to any zealous retention of these privileges, and the Latin races, read ing Rousseau and Voltaire, had not much thought for Holy Shrines in Palestine. But the Greek branch of the Christian Church was not affected by the in?uences which ultimately enshrined Reason in the capital of France. Its members still repaired in their hundreds and 'in their thousands to the Holy Shrines of Palestine. They occupied the places which the Latins neglected, they repaired the edifices which the Latins suffered to fall into decay, and they obtained special permits from the Porte authorising them to execute these works. If, therefore; the Latins had originally a treaty right, the Greeks in the course of time acquired by usage a right to occupy these sacred places.
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