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    The Breviary of Jerusalem (also called the Short Description of Jerusalem) is a short late antique Latin guidebook for Christian pilgrims to Jerusalem. The...
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    different breviaries were used in the various parts of Christendom, such as Aberdeen Breviary, Belleville Breviary, Stowe Breviary and Isabella Breviary, although...
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    authenticity of a relic he had not seen, but the Breviary of Jerusalem: 16  (a short text dated to about 530 AD),: iv  and the itinerary of Antoninus of Piacenza...
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    Holy Lance (redirect from Spear of Destiny)
    above the statue of Saint Longinus. The earliest known references to Holy Lance relics date to the 6th century. The Breviary of Jerusalem (circa 530) describes...
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  • vigil, both at Jerusalem in immediate succession of each other. Additionally, she visited the burial places of Haran, the brother of Abraham, as well...
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    ("Jerusalem Itinerary"), is the oldest known Christian itinerarium. It was written by the "Pilgrim of Bordeaux", an anonymous pilgrim from the city of Burdigala...
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  • ("on the sacred places"), a descriptive work in three books dealing with Jerusalem, Bethlehem, other sites in the Holy Land, and briefly with Alexandria...
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    account of it, the Libellus de locis sanctis. John's pilgrimage took place while the holy places belonged to the Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, but before...
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    The cartography of Jerusalem is the creation, editing, processing and printing of maps of Jerusalem from ancient times until the rise of modern surveying...
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  • was likely in Constantinople around 1106 to 1108. Daniel stayed in the Jerusalem area for over a year and took various trips around Palestine and Syria...
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    Madaba Map (redirect from Map of Madaba)
    depiction of the Holy Land and especially Jerusalem. The map dates to the sixth century AD. The Madaba Mosaic Map depicts Jerusalem with the New Church of the...
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    A Journey from Naples to Jerusalem, by Way of Athens, Egypt, and the Peninsula of Sinai, Including a Trip to the Valley of Fayoum, 579 pages Barclay...
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    Bertrandon de la Broquière (category Year of birth unknown)
    moved towards Jerusalem, which took two days. Probably he behaved as a regular pilgrim at the time, though he was also on a mission of observation. He...
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    Felix Fabri (category Year of birth uncertain)
    János Lászai (Latin: Johannes de Lazo). In Jerusalem, he met Bernhard von Breidenbach. A fictional account of Fabri's journey to and time in the Holy Land...
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  • Symon Semeonis (category Year of birth unknown)
    (Hugh the Illuminator), undertook a pilgrimage from Clonmel in Ireland to Jerusalem. In his manuscript account, he described his experiences and encounters...
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    Conrad Grünenberg (category Medieval Knights of the Holy Sepulchre)
    rank of Ritter. In Jerusalem, he was probably made a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre. He was furthermore a member of the Aragonese Order of the Jar and of the...
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  • character of an Itinerarium. The holy sites in Jerusalem are described in sections 7–11, 17, 21 and 31), interspersed with descriptions of holy sites...
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  • De locis sanctis (category Medieval Jerusalem)
    drawings of Christian churches in the Holy Land; three are in Jerusalem (the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Church of Zion, and the Chapel of the Ascension)...
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    Bernhard von Breidenbach (category Medieval Knights of the Holy Sepulchre)
    the Electorate of Mainz. He wrote a travel report, Peregrinatio in terram sanctam (1486), from his travels to the Holy Land. In Jerusalem he met Felix Fabri...
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    referred to as the breviary, of the Latin Church. The Liturgy of the Hours forms the official set of prayers "marking the hours of each day and sanctifying...
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  • proceeded towards Jerusalem where his descriptions of the chalice of onyx that was venerated in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and of the Holy Lance in...
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    Sæwulf (category Kingdom of Jerusalem)
    first English pilgrim to Jerusalem following its conquest in the First Crusade. His Latin written account of his pilgrimage tells of an arduous and dangerous...
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    was kindly received by Henry II of Jerusalem the last ruling and full titular King of Jerusalem (after the fall of Acre on 28 May 1291, this title became...
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  • of Saint George, Ramla[dubious – discuss] Fortress of Emmaus (Emmaus Nicopolis/Imwas) Jerusalem Valley of Jehoshaphat (upper Kidron Valley) Mount of Olives...
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    of the Holy Sepulchre, also known as the Church of the Resurrection, is a fourth-century church in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem...
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    The Arculf Map of Jerusalem is an ancient ground plan map of the city of Jerusalem which was published in manuscripts of the first book of De Locis Sanctis...
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  • quantitative, iambic metre, and the stanza appeared in the Breviary with divided lines: Coelestis Urbs Jerusalem, Beata pacis visio, Quæ celsa de viventibus Saxis...
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    Matins (redirect from Office of Readings)
    The first of these changes was the reform of the Roman Breviary by Pope Pius X in 1911, resulting in what Pope Paul VI called "a new Breviary". The reservation...
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  • John Phokas (category Officials of Manuel I Komnenos)
    Étei tō̂ ...schpé tō̂ Tóte Kairō̂). Michael Angold (2016), "The Fall of Jerusalem (1187) as Viewed from Byzantium," in Adrian J. Boas (ed.), The Crusader...
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    Wilbrand of Oldenburg (before 1180 - Zwolle, 26 July 1233) was a bishop of Paderborn and of Utrecht. Wilbrand was the son of Henry II, Count of Oldenburg-Wildeshausen...
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