Holy Land
The Holy Land (Hebrew: ארץ הקודש; Eretz HaQodesh ; Arabic: الأرض المقدسة Al-Ard Al-Muqaddasah) is a term which in Judaism refers to the Kingdom of Israel as defined in the Tanakh. For Jews, the Land's identification of being Holy is defined in Judaism by its differentiation from other lands by virtue of the practice of Judaism often possible only in the Land of Israel. The term Holy Land is also used by Muslims and Christians to refer to the whole area in between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea.
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... Within a few decades, these monastic hermits left the troubled Holy Land and the Carmelite order spread throughout Europe ... Louis’ first crusade to the Holy Land in 1254, he took six Carmelites back to France with him and the Order had begun to found houses throughout Europe from 1238 onwards ... In 1631 the Discalced branch of the Order returned to the Holy Land, led by the Venerable Father Prosper ...
... The Holy Land Association (Italian Associazione di Terra Santa, or ATS) is the non-governmental charitable organisation of the Custody of the Holy Land ... is entitled to the Custody of the Holy Land ... for the realization of projects for the protection of the places of Holy Land and the resident population in all countries of the Custody of the Holy ...
... Qur'an, the term الأرض المقدسة (Al-Ard Al-Muqaddasah, English "Holy Land") is mentioned at least seven times, once when Moses proclaims to the Children of Israel "O my people ... The exact region referred to as "Blessed Land" in the Qur'an verse has been interpreted differently by various scholars Abdullah Yusuf Ali likens it to a wide land range including, Syria ...
... to start a new military order to protect pilgrims on their way to the Holy land ... John were forced to evacuate from the Holy Land, traveling across the Mediterranean until finally settling on Malta ... which in the twelfth century was Christian, into the Islamic south and then to the Holy land ...
... Generally, the crusades refer to the campaigns in the Holy Land against Muslim forces sponsored by the Papacy ... The Holy Land had been part of the Roman Empire, and thus Byzantine Empire, until the Islamic conquests of the seventh and eighth centuries ... Christians had generally been permitted to visit the sacred places in the Holy Land until 1071, when the Seljuk Turks closed Christian pilgrimages and assailed the Byzantines ...
Famous quotes containing the words holy land, land and/or holy:
“now I discerne they goe on a Pilgrimage
Towards Loves holy land, faire Paphos or Cyprus.
Such devotion is meete for a blithesome age;
With sweet youth, it agrees well to be amorous.
Let olde angrie fathers lurke in an Hermitage:
Come, weele associate this jolly Pilgrimage!”
—Thomas Campion (1567–1620)
“O land of manure and mist, of dirty, cold rain.”
—Petrus Augustus De Genestet (1829–1861)
“There is no Holy One like the LORD, no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 2:2.