The Holy Land Patricians 0f The legion of Mary Saint Luke the Evangelist Raleigh, North Carolina
Apparition to Sister Lucy Our Lady appeared to Lucy as one of the three children in Fatima after which she join the convent and spend the rest of her life as a nun. During her life in the convent Mary appeared to her along with the Trinity and she had this painting
Jerusalem The Holy City
Overlooking Jerusalem
Looking at the walls of Jerusalem
Temple Mount
Eastern Gate or Golden gate
Jewish Cemetery on the Mount of Olives
Tomb of David
Wailing Wall
Pool of Siloam At the Pool of Siloam, Jesus healed a blind man by putting a mud mixture on his eyes and then telling him to wash it out.
Pool of Bethesda Where Jesus cured the cripple man
The Unction Stone
Unction Stone
Unction Stone
View from Mount of Beautitudes
On the sea of Galilee by Tiberias
Entrance to the Church of the Navity The entrance door is small so that Knights had to bend down to get in and to avoid them riding in on their horses.
Star of Bethehem The Star of Bethlehem in the Church of the Nativity marks the spot where Jesus was born.
St. Peter in Gallicantu St. Peter in Gallicantu Church is located on the site where Peter denied knowing Christ.
Church of the Visitation The site of Elizabeth s home and where Mary visited Elizabeth.
Pater Noster Church
Remains of Peter s home
St. Peter s Church in Jaffa, Tel Aviv
Garden of Gethsemane
Place of Crucifixion Inside the church is a rocky outcropping which is the traditional place where the cross was placed. Archaeological excavations have demonstrated that this site was outside the city but close to one of its gates and thus would have been a good location for a crucifixion. Today this chapel is controlled by the Greek Orthodox Church.
Robinson's Arch Robinson's Arch contains original stones over which Jesus walked
Israel in the time of Judges
Kidron Valley KIDRONkid'-ron A place which, in obedience to Antiochus Sidetes, Cendebaeus fortified (1 Maccabees 15:39;), to which, when defeated, he fled, hotly pursued by John and Judas, sons of Simon the Maccabee, who burned the city (1 Maccabees 16:4;). It is named along with Jamnia (Yebna) and Azotus (Esdud). It is possibly identical with Katrah, a village about 3 miles Southwest of `Aqir (Ekron).
Jordon River The river where John the Baptist baptized Jesus.
Church of the Beatitudes or Sermon on the Mount Church
Crusader Facade The original Byzantine church was destroyed by the Persians in AD 614. Rebuilt shortly thereafter, the Egyptian caliph al-hakim destroyed the church in 1009 and had the tomb hacked down to bedrock. The Crusaders rebuilt the church and much of what is standing today is from that time period. The ladder in the upper right window has been there since at least 1860, a testimony to rivalries between the church's factions.
Mount Tabor from the west Mt. Tabor sits at the eastern end of the Jezreel Valley, 11 miles (17 km) west of the Sea of Galilee. Its elevation at the summit is 1,843 feet (575 m) high. It is used in Scripture as a symbol of majesty. Jeremiah 46:18 (NASB) As I live, declares the King Whose name is the Lord of hosts, Surely one shall come who looms up like Tabor among the mountains, Or like Carmel by the sea (cf. Ps 89:12).
Mount Tabor The Israelite tribes gathered on Mount Tabor in the days of Deborah. The Canaanites were assembled at Harosheth Haggoyim (likely on the opposite side of the Jezreel Valley) and Barak led the Israelite charge of 10,000 men against Sisera's army. It seems that the Lord's intervention on behalf of the Israelites was in the form of a rainstorm, such that the Kishon River flooded and made chariot travel for the Canaanites impossible (Judges 4-5).
Mount Tabor Early Church fathers believed that the Transfiguration took place on Mt. Tabor, including Cyril of Jerusalem (in 348), Epiphanius, and Jerome. Eusebius was uncertain if it took place on Mt. Tabor or on Mt. Hermon. One reason for this identification was a misunderstanding of Matthew 17:1. This verse was taken to mean that Jesus took the disciples up a mountain "by itself," rather than that he took the disciples up a mountain "by themselves."
Basilica of the Transfiguration The date of the earliest churches on Mt. Tabor is unknown. The Anonymous Pilgrim of Piacenza saw three basilicas in 570. Willibaldus, in 723, mentions only one church dedicated to Jesus, Moses, and Elijah. There may have been three chapels joined together into one building, as in the present building. The current church was built in 1924 and belongs to the Franciscans.
The Transfiguration Mt. Tabor is probably not the location for the Transfiguration: (1) Jesus and his disciples are in the region of Caesarea Philippi just prior to the Transfiguration. (2) The general location of the mountain is not isolated. Much traffic passed by through the Jezreel Valley below. (3) A military fort was located on top of the mountain and was clearly in use during the Hasmonean period and the time of the Jewish Revolt, and likely would have been in Jesus' day as well.
City of David The city of Jerusalem was originally built around the Gihon Spring, on the southeastern hill to the south (left) of the Temple Mount, which is today crowned with the golddomed Dome of the Rock. Jerusalem has been continuously inhabited since at least 3000 BC, but it was only in the time of Solomon that the city limits expanded beyond the southeastern spur, known today as the "City of David."
Kidron Valley The City of David was very narrow; about 80-100m wide. The east side has a steep slope of about 60 degrees. Though smaller, steeper and more difficult for construction than the Western Hill, the City of David was chosen because of its water source, the Gihon Spring. The Kidron Valley borders the city on its east side.
Caesarea Amphitheater
Qumran Caves Original manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible, the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls, were discovered in the caves of Qumran.
Israel/Canaan during the reign of King David
Dead Sea Scrolls In 1947, young Bedouin shepherds, searching for a stray goat in the Judean Desert, entered a longuntouched cave and found jars filled with ancient scrolls. That initial discovery by the Bedouins yielded seven scrolls and began a search that lasted nearly a decade and eventually produced thousands of scroll fragments from eleven caves. During those same years, archaeologists searching for a habitation close to the caves that might help identify the people who deposited the scrolls, excavated the Qumran ruin, a complex of structures located on a barren terrace between the cliffs where the caves are found and the Dead Sea. Within a fairly short time after their discovery, historical, paleographic, and linguistic evidence, as well as carbon-14 dating, established that the scrolls and the Qumran ruin dated from the third century B.C.E. to 68 C.E. They were indeed ancient! Coming from the late Second Temple Period, a time when Jesus of Nazareth lived, they are older than any other surviving biblical manuscripts by almost one thousand years.
Links 3D tour of Jerusalem Visions of the Holy Land Part I Holy Land Panorama 3D Holy Land My Pilgrimage The Holy Land videos on youtube
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