that is entirely possible. were these ancient artifacts the personal belongings of his mother, mary? we do know that it was a house of the kind that mary and joseph could ve lived in. i personally think it s very possible this was the childhood home of jesus. and what might the childhood of jesus tell us about jesus the man? we are looking at such an important part of human history. according to the gospels, jesus spent his childhood in the village of nazareth, in the region of galilee. today, nazareth is a bustling city of more than 70,000 people in northern israel. here, in a deep cellar beneath a 19th-century convent, lie the remains of what may prove to be one of the most extraordinary discoveries ever made, the very home in which jesus was raised. if this were in fact the childhood home of jesus, it would allow us to picture the world that jesus came from in a way that no other discovery has. how people fed themselves, what people worked at, the political
then a roman empress, helena, sets off on a dramatic quest to find it. helena changed everything. the discovery of the cross is shrouded in mystery. there s intrigue. there s murder. there s sex. there s violence behind all of this. her discovery will be hacked into tiny pieces and traded around the globe, venerated by millions, ridiculed by others. i don t think there s a snowball s chance in hell that helena discovered the true cross. now for the first time, modern science set outs to answer the question: is the true cross a hoax that mocks the crucifixion or the relic of relics? the true cross is one of the greatest mysteries of christian history. we have the tools to solve it. the cross, an object of savage torture. that cross was an instrument of death, pieces of wood nailed together to kill a human being. but also an object of deepest veneration. the cross on which jesus died really symbolizes for me the greatest act of love in human history. the cross
i think that the sisters of nazareth convent is most likely the church of the nutrition mentioned in the de locis sanctus. the big question is whether or not this is actually the childhood home of jesus, and we may never know the answer to that question. the true cross, the actual cross that jesus of nazareth was crucified on, wood infused with his blood and tears. it is literally the scaffolding upon which jesus saved the world. but the relic was thought to be lost to history.
today, the church of the annunciation is the largest in the middle east. the question is, if the seventh-century description of nazareth is accurate, what happened to the other church that once stood nearby? the church that was said to be built over the childhood home of jesus was called the church of the nutrition, so called because it was where jesus was nurtured as a child. the big question is where that church is today. it disappeared from history somewhere around the time of the crusades. we re not really sure what happened to it. what we do know is that there are some clues from the de locis sanctus, this medieval manuscript, that gives us a few hints about where this church once stood. and it was fairly easy to see if it had the series of attributes that de locis sanctis attributes to the church of the nutrition.
That once stood nearby? the church that was said to be built over the childhood home of jesus was called the church of the nutrition, so called because it was where jesus was nurtured as a child. the big question is where that church is today. it disappeared from history somewhere around the time of the crusades. we re not really sure what happened to it. what we do know is that there are some clues from the de locis sanctus, this medieval manuscript, that gives us a few hints about where this church once stood. and it was fairly easy to see if it had the series of attributes that de locis sanctis attributes to the church of the nutrition. did it have a well? well, yes. there is a well at the site. did it have a vault under it? yes, the site included a large