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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the shmita was over. Ten thousand pilgrims, most of them newly arrived immigrants from the Middle East, marched to the top of Mt. Zion, where they celebrated the end of the seventh year-the ceremony of Hakhel-for the first time since King Agrippa presided over the rites in 42 A.D. This year, since none of the Israeli government leaders is strictly Orthodox, the head of the state was represented by Jerusalem's chief cantor, who read the Torah from the top of a truck. As he finished, old men blew on the double...
Crowned by a ruined fortress from which it gets its name, Mt. Castillo is 20 miles southwest of Santander in the heart of the Basque country. The rock below the fortress is honeycombed with caves which cross and intertwine. When Father Jesus first came to Santander 48 years ago, none of the caves had been well explored. The young priest, pushing through the dark galleries, found their walls covered with drawings, their floors littered with weapons and tools of paleolithic men. Fired with enthusiasm, he dedicated himself to the task of making those faraway people live again for modern...
...That was the greatest day of my life," the old priest recalls. Now he had more time for his beloved cave dwellers. Nearly every day, after saying early Mass, he changed into workman's clothes and took off on his motorcycle for Mt. Castillo. Out of the dirt floors came all the apparatus of the cavemen's lives: carved scepters, bone pins and needles, harpoons, stone lamps. Father Jesus' two-room apartment was soon full to overflowing. He appealed to the city for a place to house his collection, and was turned down. Churchmen told him that...
...hoped for: in the middle of a chamber stood a polished stone, carved to resemble a bison. At one side was a thronelike seat for a priest or chief. "This was their main sanctuary," said Father Jesus. "It was their cathedral, the heart of the prehistoric city of Mt. Castillo...
...exploring priest is sure now that Mt. Castillo is one of the places where human society was born. While the glaciers crunched over northern Europe, men sought shelter in caves, and the connected caves of Mt. Castillo offered room for many of them. Somehow they learned to behave less like animals, more like humans...