Bagatti Bellarmino

The study embraces the whole time in which Nazareth was inhabited, but for the moment we limit ourselves to illustrating the first period which runs from the beginning up to the Crusades (XII cent.). Certainly from the historical and religious angle this period appears as the most interesting for antiquity, but the period that runs from Crusades to our day has also interest, especially from the artistic point of view.

The second volume on the excavations of Nazareth now appears, finally after years of waiting. This delay was not deliberate.

The order of description begins with the south, that is, from Jerusalem, listing first the villages east of the Jerusalem-Jenin road, then those west of the same route. Since some villages are located in the mountains and others on the plain, those located in the hill-country will be described first, then those on the plain, so as to keep a kind of single line of vision.

San Paolo, parlando della giustificazione delle anime, disse che Gesù Cristo «fu consegnato per i nostri delittti e fu risuscitato per la nostra giustificazione» (Rom. 4,25)

Dopo vari studi preparatori editi in Liber Annuus possiamo finalmente offrire agli studiosi una relazione definitiva di questi scavi che hanno avuto una qualche celebrità nel mondo scientifico.