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Fisk, George (1845): A pastor's memorial of Egypt, the Red Sea, the wildernesses of Sin and Paran, Mount Sinai, Jerusalem, and other principal localities of the Holy Land visited in 1842 Forsyth, J. Bell (James Bell), 1802–1869) (1861): A Few Months in the East: Or, A Glimpse of the Red, the Dead, and the Black Seas Printed by J. Lovell, 181 ...
After a short Mediterranean crossing by cargo ship, Wilson connected with the Israel National Trail, [18] a well-marked footpath that led from outside Haifa nearly all the way to Jerusalem. On September 29, 2006, some nine hundred-seven years after Godfrey de Bouillon, Wilson reached the Holy City after 160 days total; with 137 of those walking ...
Pilgrimage of Sæwulf to Jerusalem and the Holy Land. In PPTS IV.2 and Thomas Wright's Early Travels in Palestine (1848). [35] Erik I of Denmark. Erik I of Denmark (c. 1060 – 1103) and his wife Boedil Thurgotsdatter were the first monarchs to attempt to travel to Jerusalem following the First Crusade, beginning their journey in 1103.
The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period.The best known of these military expeditions are those to the Holy Land between 1095 and 1291 that had the objective of reconquering Jerusalem and its surrounding area from Muslim rule after the region had been conquered by the Rashidun Caliphate ...
Commemorative sculpture of the meeting between Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I in Jerusalem. The list of pastoral visits of Pope Paul VI details the travels of the first pope to leave Italy since 1809, [1] [2] representing the first ever papal pilgrimage to the Holy Land [3] and the first papal visit to Africa, Asia, North America, Oceania, and South America.
Herzl had a second formal, public audience with the emperor at the latter's tent camp on Street of the Prophets in Jerusalem on 2 November 1898. [3] [6] [7] At the public presentations outside of Mikveh and Jerusalem, Herzl learnt that the Kaiser's request to the Sultan had not been successful, and the Kaiser no longer had interest in Herzl or ...
Jews commonly refer to the Land of Israel as "The Holy Land" (Hebrew: אֶרֶץ הַקוֹדֵשׁ Eretz HaKodesh). [12] The Tanakh explicitly refers to it as "holy land" in Zechariah 2:16. [13] The term "holy land" is further used twice in the deuterocanonical books (Wisdom 12:3, [14] 2 Maccabees 1:7). [15]
In 1235, Gregory called upon French crusaders to fight in Constantinople instead of the Holy Land. On December 16, the pope ordered the Franciscan William of Cordelle to preach for crusade in Latin Greece. Theobald of Champagne responded to the call due to his need for papal support, but he ended up refusing to commute his vow for Jerusalem. [7]