Bethlehem

What this place is

• Holy site — where fourth-century pilgrims entered the cave of the Nativity, and Jerome counted himself worthy to have kissed the manger
• School or library — Jerome's cell and his books, and the monasteries around them — where he turned the Old Testament out of the Hebrew, and where boys were taught their grammar

Glosses

• The earliest 25 December An almanac made at Rome in 354 for a Christian named Valentinus carries, among the days of the martyrs, one line that is not a martyr: VIII kal. Ian. natus Christus in Betleem Iudeae — the eighth day before the kalends…

Who is recorded here

• Saint Anne birth · 55 BC
• Jesus birth · 5 BC
• Jesus nativity · 5 BC
• Jerome ministry · AD 386
• Paula of Rome death · AD 406
• Eustochium death · AD 420
• Jerome death · AD 420
• Jerome burial · AD 420

What happened here

• Circumcision of Jesus 5 BC
• Adoration of the Magi 5 BC
• The Slaughter of the Innocents 4 BC
• Paula and Eustochium settle at Bethlehem AD 386
• Jerome translates the scriptures at Bethlehem AD 390

In art

• Mary and Joseph find no lodgings in Bethlehem — Jan Matsys (1558)
• The People's Census at Bethlehem — Pieter Brueghel the Elder (1566)
• File:Palestine-06314 - West Bank (34121979493).jpg — Dennis G. Jarvis

About the place

Bethlehem is a city in the West Bank, Palestine, located about ten kilometres south of Jerusalem, and the capital of the Bethlehem Governorate. It had a population of 28,591 people, as of 2017.

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