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Church of St Mark
Excerpt: Jerusalem The Church of St Mark is home to one of Jerusalem’s smallest and oldest Christian communities, but it is the setting for a remarkable set of traditions — including the claim to be the site of the Upper Room of the Last Supper. This hard-to-find Syriac Orthodox church is in the north-eastern corner […]
Machaerus
Excerpt: Jordan The hilltop fortress of Machaerus, on the eastern side of the Dead Sea and 53 kilometres southwest of Amman, is recorded as the place where John the Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded. John preached a baptism of repentance at the Jordan River and foretold the coming of Jesus the Messiah, who was his […]
Sebastiya
Excerpt: West Bank In the Palestinian village of Sebastiya, Christians and Muslims alike honour a connection to John the Baptist at a location earlier known for the worship of Phoenician gods and a Roman emperor. Sebastiya (with various spellings including Sebaste and Sebastia) is about 12 kilometres northwest of Nablus, to the east of the road […]
Magdala
Excerpt: Israel Magdala was a major first-century port on the Sea of Galilee, a centre of trade and commerce, and an exporter of salted fish to markets as far away as Europe. Archaeological discoveries early in the 21st century have made it a burgeoning pilgrimage destination. Magdala’s fame down the centuries rested on one notable […]
Pilgrimage September 19, 2015
Excerpt: A New Zealand pilgrimage to the Holy Land will leave Auckland and Christchurch on September 19, 2015. It will be organised by Harvest Pilgrimages and led by Seetheholyland.net director Pat McCarthy, with Catholic priest Father Bernie Thomas as chaplain. The 20-day See the Holy Land pilgrimage will visit Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Territories. To download […]
Jaffa
Excerpt: Israel Picturesque Jaffa, on the Mediterranean Sea just south of Tel Aviv, is where the apostle Peter received a crucial vision that changed his mind about accepting gentiles into the early Christian Church. Peter was staying in the seaside house of a tanner called Simon and went up on the roof to pray. He […]
Mar Saba
Excerpt: West Bank The greatest of the ancient monasteries dotting the wilderness of the Judaean Desert, Mar Saba hangs dramatically down the cliff edge of a deep ravine. The grey-domed Greek Orthodox complex was established in the 5th century by St Sabas (Mar Saba in Arabic), a monk from central Turkey, and was largely rebuilt […]
Kursi
Excerpt: Israel A headlong stampede by a herd of demon-possessed pigs into the Sea of Galilee is remembered at Kursi, a picturesque site beneath the Golan Heights on the eastern side of the lake. Three Gospels tell the story: Jesus steps out of a boat after crossing the lake and is confronted by a man […]
Christ Church
Excerpt: Jerusalem Compared with the ancient churches of Byzantine or Crusader origin in Jerusalem’s Old City, Christ Church is a relative newcomer. Yet this Anglican church, dating only from 1849, has its own historical claims: It was the first Protestant church in the Middle East, and the first Jerusalem church in modern times to use […]
Inn of the Good Samaritan
Excerpt: West Bank Though the Inn of the Good Samaritan existed only in a parable, a real-life site was proposed in the early Christian centuries to edify the faith of pilgrims. The location, beside the road going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, fitted Jesus’ parable about the man who “fell into the hands of robbers, […]