Magdala Through History | Miserable Village
Miserable Village By Fr. Cristobal Vilaroig Throughout the nineteenth century, many pilgrims passed by Magdala, then called Mejdel or el-Mejdel, but they did not see much more than a small village of very little interest. The Swiss geographer Johann Ludwig Burckhard wrote in 1822: Next to Mount Arbel “stands the miserable village el-Mejdel.” Around the…