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unusual facts about the Holy Land



Superfantozzi

During periods to follow Fantozzi finally arrives in the Middle Ages where together with Filini back from Crusades in the Holy Land to return to his wife Pina who wore the chastity belt.


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Adam de ireys

"...He accompanied Godfrey of Bouillon (aka Godefroi de Bouillon) to the Holy Land on the First Crusade, and had an active part in the taking of Jerusalem in 1099.

Al-Qunaya

Missionaries of the Franciscan Fathers (the Holy Land Rangers) (From Latin Catholic) came to the village in 1878 and built a church, Monastery, clinic and the first Arabic school in northwestern Syria, they re-built the church in 1885 and the current church dates to 1932.

Antonio Barluzzi

During this time he planned a great temple at the Holy Sepulchre and what he thought was his final work in the holy land, a Shrine to the Incarnation in Nazareth.

Assumptionists

In 1873 these religious also began a series of large-scale pilgrimages both within France and to the Holy Land which developed into such current endeavors as the popular national pilgrimage to Lourdes every year on the occasion of the feast of the Assumption, gathering thousands of pilgrims.

Avraham Yehoshua Heshel

According to one hasidic legend, angels subsequently carried his body and buried him in the Holy Land, and in the Jewish Cemetery in Tiberias there is a stone marking his supposed grave.

Capernaum

Jerome Murphy-O'Connor, Oxford Archaeological Guides: The Holy Land (Oxford, 1998), 217–220.

Clarel

Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) is an epic poem by American writer Herman Melville, published in two volumes.

Dormition Abbey

During his visit to Jerusalem in 1898 for the dedication of the Protestant Church of the Redeemer, Kaiser Wilhelm II bought this piece of land on Mount Zion for 120,000 German Goldmark from Sultan Abdul Hamid II and presented it to the "German Union of the Holy Land" ("Deutscher Verein vom Heiligen Lande").

First Council of Lyon

At the opening, June 28, after the singing of the Veni Creator, Spiritu, Innocent IV preached on the subject of the five wounds of the Church and compared them to his own five sorrows: (1) the poor behaviour of both clergy and laity; (2) the insolence of the Saracens who occupied the Holy Land; (3) the Great East-West Schism; (4) the cruelties of the Tatars in Hungary; and (5) the persecution of the Church by the Emperor Frederick.

Flaminio Vacca

Vacca had been one of the founding members of the Confraternità dei Virtuosi that was formed at the Pantheon by Desiderio da Segni, a canon of the church of Santa Maria ad Martyres that occupied and preserved the Pantheon, to ensure that worship was maintained in the Chapel of St Joseph in the Holy Land, Others among the first members were Antonio da Sangallo the younger, Jacopo Meneghino, Giovanni Mangone, Taddeo Zuccari and Domenico Beccafumi.

Giacomo Bini

As head of the Franciscan Order, which is the official Catholic 'custos of the Holy Land', he was present at Mount Nebo to greet Pope John Paul II at his starting point for his pilgrimage to Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority.

Historia Hierosolymitana

Jacques de Vitry's Historia Hierosolymitana, a history of the Holy Land from the advent of Islam until the crusades of his own day, written in 1219

History of Roman Catholicism in France

According to long-standing tradition, Mary, Martha, Lazarus and some companions, who were expelled by persecutions from the Holy Land, traversed the Mediterranean in a frail boat with neither rudder nor mast and landed at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer near Arles.

Hyksos

One text, the Carnarvon Tablet I, relates the misgivings of the Theban ruler’s council of advisors when Kamose proposed moving against the Hyksos, whom he claimed were a humiliating stain upon the holy land of Egypt.

InfoCom Corporation

Ghassan Elashi, in particular, was the chairman of the Holy Land Foundation.

Jerome Murphy-O'Connor

Oxford University Press invited him to write an archaeological guide to the Holy Land which was published in 1980.

Kafr Bir'im

Benvenisti, Meron (2002): Sacred Landscape: Buried History of the Holy Land Since 1948.

L'Encobert

According to Venguda Del Antichrist, a Messiah would soon come who would lead a new Crusade to the Holy Land, annihilate the Muslims, and do battle with the Antichrist as predicted in the Book of Revelation.

Marco Zappia

He was nominated for 18 Emmy Awards, winning twice, first for Hee Haw in 1971, and then for the 1980 special Christmas in the Holy Land.

Marino Sanuto the Elder

It was begun in March 1306, and finished (in its earliest form) in January 1307, when it was offered to Pope Clement V as a manual for true Crusaders who desired the reconquest of the Holy Land.

Mohamamad Fatmi Che Salleh

Mohammed Fatmi was one of the entourage for the Sultan of Kelantan during the Sultan's visit to the Holy Land Mecca.

Neyyattinkara

Aruvippuram, the holy land of Sree Narayana Guru is an important pilgrim centre near Neyyattinkara.

Nur-eldeen Masalha

He is Historian and Professor of Religion and Politics and Director of the Centre for Religion and History and the Holy Land Research Project at St. Mary's University College, University of Surrey.

Richard Guildford

Next day he embarked at Rye along with John Whitby, prior of Gisburn in Yorkshire, on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

Sainte-Baume

The French tradition of Saint Lazare of Bethany is that Mary Magdalene, her brother Lazarus, and Maximinus, one of the Seventy Disciples and some companions, expelled by persecutions from the Holy Land, traversed the Mediterranean in a frail boat with neither rudder nor mast and landed at the place called Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer near Arles.

The First Templar

Acre, in Palestine, the last Christian city in the Holy Land is under siege and about to fall into Mamluk hands.

The Tour

The Grand Tour, a tour of Europe and the Holy Land conducted by British gentleman in the 18th and 19th century

Vergilius of Salzburg

Around 745 he left Ireland, intending to visit the Holy land, but, like many of his countrymen, who seemed to have adopted this practice as a work of piety, he settled down in France, where he was received with great favour by Pippin the Younger then Mayor of the Palace under Childeric III of Franconia.

Vézelay

In 1189, the Frankish and English factions of the Third Crusade met at Vézelay before officially departing for the Holy Land.

William Cowper Prime

He published Boat Life in Egypt and Nubia and Tent Life in the Holy Land based on his experiences there, which include his accounts of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Dead Sea, and the port of Jaffa, among others.