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Has the House Where Jesus Stayed in Capernaum Been Found?

Italian archaeologists believe they have uncovered St. Peter’s home

By James F. Strange, Hershel Shanks

Italian archaeologists claim to have discovered the house were Jesus stayed in Capernaum. Proof positive is still lacking and may never be found, but all signs point to the likelihood that the house of St. Peter where Jesus stayed, near Capernaum’s famous synagogue, is an authentic relic. Nestled on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee, the ruins of Capernaum slumbered peacefully for hundreds of years; indeed, some of its remains went undisturbed for thousands of years. Modern investigation of this site began in the mid–19th century, but even now the earth is still 028yielding new secrets. What […]

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Footnotes

1.

Capernaum is the Latinization of the Hebrew Kfar Nahum which means the village of Nahum.

2.

Tosephta.Megillah IV.23.

3.

A sacristy is a room or building connected with a religious house, in which the sacred vessels, vestments, etc., are kept.

4.

The Estrangelo alphabet is one of the most common of the Syriac alphabets. It probably first came into use in the first or second century A.D. and was most common in the third and fourth centuries A.D. Although its frequency then declined, it is still in use today.

5.

See Cafarnao, Vol. IV (I graffiti della casa di S. Pietro) by Emmanuele Testa (Jerusalem: Franciscan Printing Press, 1972); and James F. Strange “The Capernaum and Herodium Publications, Part 2, ” Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, No. 233 (1979), pp. 68–69.