Pilgrimages – Page 4 – The Southern Cross

5: Mount of Olives

The Mount of Olives is my favourite part of Jerusalem. This was where Jesus would make his home when visiting […]

Occasionally I am asked about my favourite place in the Holy Land. It is a difficult question to answer. For

Our time in the Holy Land was slowly winding down. For a week we followed in the footsteps of Jesus,

When St Peter left the lands of his birth for the city of his death, he departed by boat from

As one prepares to visit Rome for the first time, one may expect that the highpoint would be St Peter’s

At breakfast on Wednesday morning in Rome, our group of 45 pilgrims seemed a little more animated than usual. This

Francesco di Bernardone was in many ways the prototype hippie, in the best sense of the word. He opted out

In bygone eras, pilgrims to the Holy Land would arrive at the bustling, colourful port of Jaffa (at least if

When the author Mark Twain made his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1869, he found Nazareth “wonderfully interesting because