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The earliest monastery was constructed by the Byzantines in the 6th century CE above the cave traditionally said to be that where Jesus spent forty days and forty nights fasting and meditating during the temptation of Satan, [1] [2] about three kilometers northwest of Jericho. The monastery receives its name from the mountain which the early ...
Mount of Temptation, in Palestinian Arabic Jebel Quruntul (Arabic: جبل لقرنطل), is a mountain over the city of Jericho in the West Bank, in the State of Palestine; ancient Christian tradition identifies it as the location of the temptation of Jesus described in the New Testament Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, in which it is said that, from "a high place", the Devil offered Jesus ...
Monastery of the Temptation; Tower of Jericho; W. Wadi Qelt Synagogue This page was last edited on 7 March 2024, at 05:54 (UTC). Text ...
Community of Jesus, a Benedictine monastery located in Orleans. Glastonbury Abbey, a Roman Catholic monastery located in Hingham. Mount Saint Mary's Abbey, a Roman Catholic monastery in Wrentham. Society of St. John the Evangelist, an Anglican monastery in Cambridge. St. Benedict Abbey, a Benedictine monastery located in Harvard.
The Monastery of Saint George of Choziba (Arabic: دير القديس جورج, Greek: Μονή Αγίου Γεωργίου του Χοζεβίτου, lit. Monastery of Saint George the Hozevite), also known as Monastery of Choziba (or Hoziba) or Mar Jaris, [1] is a monastery located in Wadi Qelt in Area C of the eastern West Bank, in the Jericho Governorate of the State of Palestine.
Sister Kathleen O'Neill took Newsy on a tour of Monastery Candy, showing where the caramel is mixed and cut with their "magic touch." Iowa Nuns Make Caramel Candies For The Holiday Season Skip to ...
Monastery of Mount Sarantario (of Temptation), Jericho [34] Monastery of Martha and Maria (nunnery/convent); in Bethany [34] Monastery of the Twelve Apostles; in Tiberias [34] Monastery of Abba Gerasimos of the Jordan [34] Monastery of Abba Theodosius the Cenobiarch; [34] Judaean desert near Bethlehem; Monastery of Jacob's Well in Samaria; in ...
A lavra or laura (Greek: Λαύρα; Cyrillic: Ла́вра) is a type of monastery consisting of a cluster of cells or caves for hermits, with a church and sometimes a refectory at the center. Lavra monasteries operate within the Orthodox and other Eastern Christian traditions; the name is also used by some Catholic communities.