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The Pharmacy of St. Saviour in Jerusalem
A singular patrimony of knowledge in the Middle East A rich collection of jugs, saplings, apothecary vases and jars, pharmacopoeia, recipes and carefully preserved medical records make up the ...
Medicine in the Holy Land: Symbol of International and Interreligious Charity
Jerusalem, 1785 In 1785 an epidemic of the plague swept the Holy Land. Years later, in 1898, Paolo Gaidano immortalized in a painting, the piety of the Franciscan friars who, without regard for ...
Χαίρε, Μαρία. Ave Maria. The origins of the Marian cult
The name of the city of Nazareth - which is cited neither in the works of Giuseppe Flavio, nor in Talmud - appeared for the first time in the Gospels. According to saint Luke, the episode of the ...
Design of the sacred: the new catalogue of liturgical vestments and fabrics
The new catalogue of the Terra Sancta Museum dedicated to sacred vestments, edited by Maria Pia Pettinau Vescina with the contribution of Danièle Véron-Denise, a well-known expert in liturgical and ...
From the Ecole des chartes to Jerusalem to study a 15th century manuscript
Interview with Geneviève Alday, student and archivist and paleographer in Paris, came to Jerusalem to make studies on a manuscript from the Archives of the Custody of the Holy Land. The ...
Preparing the opening of the Terra Sancta Museum: The restoration of a mosaic found on Mt. Sion
The archaeologist Daniela Massara, researcher and curator of the archaelogical collection of the Terra Sancta Museum, brings us the discovery of a mosaic found in 1930.
