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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 ...
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 the Americas, Africa, Oceania, and Asia.
Great Jubilee pilgrimage to the Holy Land: 21–22 March 2000 Israel: Tel Aviv, Nazareth, Jerusalem, Capernaum: 21–22 March 2000 Palestinian National Authority: Bethlehem, Dheisheh: 92 12–13 May 2000 Portugal: Fátima: Fourth visit to Portugal. Great Jubilee pilgrimage to the Marian shrine in Fátima. 93 4–5 May 2001 Greece: Athens
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 ...
Taglit-Birthright Israel (Hebrew: תגלית), also known as Birthright Israel or simply Birthright, is a free ten-day heritage trip to Israel, Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights for young adults of Jewish heritage between the ages of 18 and 26. [1] [2] [3] The program is sponsored by the Birthright Israel Foundation, whose donors subsidize ...
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.
It runs from Megiddo and Hazor south to Beersheba by way of Shechem, [5] Bethel, Jerusalem, Ephrath and Hebron. Unlike the Via Maris and the King's Highway which were international roads crossing the territories of many peoples, the Ridge Route was wholly within the territory of ancient Israel. [citation needed]
Jews commonly refer to the Land of Israel as "The Holy Land" (Hebrew: אֶרֶץ הַקוֹדֵשׁ Eretz HaKodesh). [11] The Tanakh explicitly refers to it as "holy land" in Zechariah 2:16. [ 12 ] The term "holy land" is further used twice in the deuterocanonical books (Wisdom 12:3, [ 13 ] 2 Maccabees 1:7). [ 14 ]