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Manuscripts from the Holy Land Shapell Manuscript Foundation "Description of the Holy Land", 1585 map depicting the Holy Land at the time of Jesus, World Digital Library This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Palestine, Holiness of". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New ...
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Egypt: The Flight to Egypt episode in the Gospel of Matthew takes place after the birth of Jesus, and the family flees to Egypt before returning to Galilee a few years later. [ 54 ] [ 55 ] [ 56 ] "The region of Tyre and Sidon " ( Mark 7:24–30 and Matthew 15:21–28 ) in what had once been Phoenicia and had become in Jesus' time part of Roman ...
The primary holy places are connected to the main events in the life of Jesus. Other holy sites are associated with events from the Old Testament, the lives of Mary, John the Baptist, and the Apostles, with endless more associated with later Christian saints, holy men and women, and local traditions.
The place where Jesus was condemned to death; Jesus is made to bear his cross (Church of the Flagellation/Church of the Imposition of the Cross and Church of Ecce Homo); Jesus falls for the first time; Jesus meets his mother (Church of Our Lady of Sorrows); Simon of Cyrene is made to bear the cross (Chapel of Simon of Cyrene); Veronica wipes ...
The pilgrimage of Arculfus in the Holy Land: about the year A.D. 670 (1889). [395] Translated by J. R. Macpherson. In the library of the Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society. Includes the abbreviation of the account by Bede. Stanley Lane-Poole. Stanley Edward Lane-Poole (1854–1931), a British orientalist and archaeologist. [396] The Barbary ...
Monastery of Saint Moses the Abyssinian, hosts precious frescoes dating to the 11th and 12th century, and recent discoveries suggest that the ruins may date back 10,000 years. Saint Mary Church of the Holy Belt in Homs dates back to 59 AD and contains a venerated Holy Girdle that is supposed to be a section of the belt of Virgin Mary.
A decree reportedly directed against those who leave the Holy Land in difficult times stipulates that a man who lives in a house for more than a year seizes its possession against its absent owner. [76] Godfrey founds the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Mary of the Valley of Jehosaphat at the site identified as the Tomb of the Virgin Mary. [77] 1100 ...