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The sweeping curves of the colonnades reach out to the unending stream of pilgrims from Rome itself and the whole world, urbi et orbi, to take them into the bosom of the church beyond.
In 1009, however, churches were destroyed by the fanatical Caliph (Arab ruler) Hakim, and in 1071 Seljuk Turks took over Jerusalem and began attacking Christian pilgrims.
Mount Sinai has drawn pilgrims for generations and it was endowed with a Christian place of worship as early as a.d. 527, when Emperor Justinian built a small orthodox monastery in the lea of the mountain surrounded by sheer rock faces.
Dominating the skyline beyond Westmount on the Côte-des-Neiges, St. Joseph’s Oratory (Oratoire St-Joseph) receives up to 2 million Catholic pilgrims each year.
Apart from pilgrims streaming to St. Francis’s Assisi and university students heading for Perugia, it has remained — at least in the eyes of foreign visitors — a very happy backwater.