bk. vm. ch. IX. LATER CHURCHES IN PALESTINE. 411 It would have been so easy to have made the walls thick(M-, or to have built them up with rough unhewn masses of ro;*k ! But the unsuspecting faith of the Middle Ages would have been equally Avilling to believe it was rock-cut, if told so, had it been fashioned in wood or in any other material. It probably never would have been assumed that the rock was there if it were not so difficult for educated men in a critical age to understand the simple faith of dark ages. A man must live among jjeople in an early stage of civilization, and see miracles performed, before he can understand what took place in Europe between the 8th and 13th centuries. 837. Plan of Church at Abd Gosh. (From De Voglie.) Scale 50 ft. to 1 in. Although the church of the Holy .Sepulchre was, naturally, by far the greatest work undertaken by the Crusaders, there are some six or seven other churches in Jerusalem,^ or its immediate vicinity, which were erected during the 12th cen- tury. The most complete of these at the present day is that of St. Anne — now in course of thorough repair by the French government. It is a small church, 112 ft. long by 66 ft. wide internally, divided into three aisles, each terminating in an apse, and covered with inter- secting vaults, showing strongly marked transverse ribs of the usual Italian pattern. It has also a small dome on the intersection between the nave and transept. The windows are small and with- out tracery. It is, in fact, a coun- terpart of the usual Italian church of the age. The same remarks apply to Ste. Marie la Grande, Ste. Marie Latine, the Madelaine, and other churches which the Christians built in their quarter of the town, during their occupation, to replace those of which the Moslems had deprived them, and which originally stood in the Harara area, in the immediate proximity of the true church of Constantino. One of the most perfect churches of this age, out of Jerusalem, is that East Enil of Church at Abft Gosh. (From De Vogiie.) 1 All these are carefully deseribed and I beautiful work entitled " Les ^glises de delineated by Count De Vogue, in his | la Terre Sainte," Paris, 1860.
