1.   At the Church of the Primacy, the pope kissed the sprawling rock where tradition says a resurrected Jesus shared a festive meal of fish with his apostles.

2.   But beneath the altar of the old church is the grotto where, tradition says, Christ was born.

3.   Dozens of armed Palestinians were holed up inside the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, which is built over the grotto where tradition says Jesus was born.

4.   Easter, the day on which tradition says that Christ was resurrected, is one of the holiest days on the Roman Catholic calendar.

5.   He mentioned, in passing, that he had been reading up on what Jewish tradition might say about stem cell research.

6.   He is gray, which tradition says is strike one.

7.   He will pray above the Bethlehem cave where tradition says Christ was born.

8.   In Bethlehem, where tradition says that Jesus was born, there is nothing but room at the inn.

9.   In Bethlehem, Clinton fell to his knees in prayer in the grotto where tradition says Jesus was born.

10.   It is a major Christian holy site, the place where tradition says that the angel Gabriel told Mary she was pregnant.