St. Cyril was bishop of Jerusalem from 349 to 384 and so had the privilege of presiding over the magnificent new church built above Christ’s tomb by the Christian emperor Constantine. He preached a series of sermons just steps from the tomb and there declared the difference of being in the Holy Land. “Others only hear, but we both see and touch.” For Cyril, the land itself was a living source of witness to our faith (Catechetical Lectures 14.23). For him, the land virtually had become a “fifth” gospel.