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The Holy Land [a] is an area roughly located between the Mediterranean Sea and the eastern bank of the Jordan River, traditionally synonymous both with the biblical Land of Israel and with the region of Palestine. Today, the term "Holy Land" usually refers to a territory roughly corresponding to the modern states of Israel and Palestine.
The chapel, just like the complex, originally had the Italian name Terra Santa, but due to the situation during World War II, when Italy was an enemy state of the British Empire, who at that time ruled what was known as Mandatory Palestine, it was changed to the Latin version: Terra Sancta.
The Jerusalem Cross is a regular or symmetrically even cross which ends with a "T" shape, known as Tau Crosses - representing the Old Testament and surrounded by 4 equal smaller Greek Crosses, symbolic of the New Testament. The Jerusalem Cross is mostly linked to Jesus Christ and bequest to spread the gospel to the 4 corners of world.
Terra Sancta Museum - Archaeology. As the successor to the original museum established in Jerusalem in 1902 by Custos Frediano Giannini, this museum displays the history of the Holy Land and the origins of Christianity through the exhibition of finds from excavations conducted by Franciscan archaeologists of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum ...
It is generally the Lithostrotos (John 19:13) but more likely belonged to the Aelia Capitolina of Emperor Hadrian (2nd cent. AD). The Roman arch that spans the Via Dolorosa is one of the best known in Jerusalem, due to the role that tradition has assigned to it in the story of Jesus’ Passion.
In the Multimedia Section, a multimedia, digital and 15 minutes tour is offered in each of the following languages: English, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, French, Russian, German, Arabic and Hebrew. For a digital guide in the Archaeological Section, you can download the Terra Sancta Museum application, free of charge on Google Play and ...
Mar 14, 2013 · In 2015 in the heart of the Old City of Jerusalem, the TERRA SANCTA MUSEUM – the only museum in the world dedicated to the roots of Christianity and the preservation of the Holy Places – will open: a permanent exhibit established by the Custody of the Holy Land to shed light on the history of this extraordinary land in which for millennia ...
