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2. List of Christian pilgrimage sites - Wikipedia

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   Lod (Lydda) – the traditional birth and burial site of Saint George, one of the most venerated Christian martyrs. Mount Carmel, site of Elijah 's famous challenge to the prophets of Baal. Mount Tabor, site of the Transfiguration. Nain, the site of the Raising of the son of the widow of Nain, one of Jesus' miracles.

3. List of Christian holy places in the Holy Land - Wikipedia

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   Mount Zion, with the Cenacle (the site of the Last Supper) and the nearby site of the Dormition of Mary. Mount of Olives, whose western flank is facing Jerusalem (for sites on its eastern side see Bethany and Bethphage). Here are the traditional sites of a cave in which Jesus taught his disciples, of the Ascension of Jesus and, in the Orthodox ...

4. Christianized sites - Wikipedia

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   Christianized sites. San Lorenzo in Miranda occupies the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina, Rome, conserving the pronaos. The Temple of Gaius and Lucius, known today as the Maison Carrée at Nîmes, owes its preservation to its conversion to a church. The Christianization of sites that had been pagan occurred as a result of conversions in early ...

5. Christian pilgrimage - Wikipedia

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   Christian pilgrimages were first made to sites connected with the birth, life, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.Aside from the early example of Origen in the third century, surviving descriptions of Christian pilgrimages to the Holy Land date from the 4th century, when pilgrimage was encouraged by church fathers including Saint Jerome, and established by Saint Helena, the mother of ...

6. Church of the Holy Sepulchre - Wikipedia

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   The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, [a] also known as the Church of the Resurrection, [b] is a fourth-century church in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. The church is also the seat of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem. [1] It is considered the holiest site in Christianity and has been the most important pilgrimage ...

7. List of religious sites - Wikipedia

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   The Church of St. Photina near Jacob's Well, a New Testament landmark, in 2008. It is here that Jesus met a Samaritan woman and preached to her. Mount Tabor in Lower Galilee, the site of the Transfiguration of Jesus, in 2010. The Cenacle of Mount Zion in Jerusalem, the site of the Last Supper and Pentecost, in 2008.