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In the same year that this precious Trust reached the shores of the Holy Land and was delivered into the hands of Abdu'l- Baha, He, accompanied by Dr. Ibrahim Khayru'llah, whom He had already honored with the titles of "Baha's Peter," "The Second Columbus" and "Conqueror of America," drove to the recently purchased site which had been blessed and selected by Baha'u'llah on Mt. Carmel, and there laid, with His own hands, the foundation- stone of the edifice, the construction of which He, a few months later, was to commence. About that same time, the marble sarcophagus, designed to receive the body of the Bab, an offering of love from the Baha'is of Rangoon, had, at Abdu'l- Baha's suggestion, been completed and shipped to Haifa.
(274:3)
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