He was given a ten-inch silver key to the city and a pair of 17th Century scissors to cut the ceremonial ribbon across the road leading to Jerusalem. For Weizmann, as for his Zionists, it had been ...

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with a particular focus on tracing the “Bulgarian pilgrimage to Jerusalem over 500 years of Ottoman rule.” The survey documented inscriptions in three major sites: the Monastery of Saints ...

Rome has been all gussied up for the Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year. An extra 10 million pilgrims are forecast, adding to last year's record of 22 million. More than $8 billion has been spent to ...

The remarkable modern pilgrimage to transport the ... "Arthur said 'take this wooden heart to Jerusalem'. Robert the Bruce touched the tree, he planted it, he is connected to it." ...

A pilgrimage is a journey ... of Luke specifically mentions Jerusalem. It is mentioned as a place Jesus travelled to with his parents and also as a place where he chose to spend time alone ...