The old monks are wise.

They know how to drive a stake through a pleasant tradition that will hold it to its place forever.
We visited the places where Jesus worked for fifteen years as a carpenter, and where he attempted to teach in the synagogue and was driven out by a mob.

Catholic chapels stand upon these sites and protect the little fragments of the ancient walls which remain.

Our pilgrims broke off specimens.

We visited, also, a new chapel, in the midst of the town, which is built around a boulder some twelve feet long by four feet thick; the priests discovered, a few years ago, that the disciples had sat upon this rock to rest, once, when they had walked up from Capernaum.
They hastened to preserve the relic.