The only thing she can recall from the gala 16-day celebration that summer of 1940 was standing in a field and seeing bright fountains of color ... of people who can look forward to Nazareth ...

By contrast, the new evidence suggests very clearly that the people of Nazareth lived purely Jewish lives – and kept to all the major ritual laws. The area seems to have been actively anti-Roman.

Archaeologists working in Nazareth — Jesus' hometown — in modern ... and identified it as the place where people, who lived centuries after Jesus' time, believed Jesus was brought up.