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JESUS’S HOMETOWN. Several smaller commemorative churches were also built by Constantine’s order in the Galilee. Although the churches at Tiberias and Sepphoris have not yet been identified, the Church of the Annunciation at Nazareth stands today over a cave shrine—perhaps first constructed in the fourth century—that marks the traditional site of the Archangel Gabriel’s annunciation to Mary.