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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rochel1977" data-source="post: 4068241" data-attributes="member: 371">Well those days there were holy wars between the Catholics and Muslims from the middle east. Catholic Tempers were in charge of protecting the holy land and securing the relics those days. but the Muslim opposition was so large they could not protect most of the churches in the Holy land. Such as turkey, Syria and some places. Most of the churches specially with tombs of the devoted to Catholic saints and monks were converted to mosques. as an example can name the St John's Shrine inside the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria<img src="http://www.the40yearplan.com/img/damascus-umayyad-john-the-.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://www.danielpipes.org/pics/new/large/274.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

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