• Arculf was a Frankish churchman who toured the Holy Land around 670. Bede claimed he was a bishop from Gaul (Galliarum episcopus). According to Bede's...
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    an 1895 publication of Arculf's pilgrimage report, The Oak or Terebinth of Abraham has been shown in two different sites. Arculf and many others (Jerome...
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    Architectural historian K. A. C. Creswell, referring to a testimony by Arculf, a Gallic monk, during his pilgrimage to Palestine in 679–82, notes the...
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    entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. According to the Gaullic bishop Arculf, who lived in Jerusalem from 679 to 688, the Mosque of Umar was a rectangular...
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  • of Northumbria in 698. It was based on an account by the Frankish monk Arculf of his travels to the Holy Land, from which Adomnán, with aid from some...
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  • pilgrimage. Adomnán got much of his information from a Frankish bishop called Arculf, who had personally visited Egypt, Rome, Constantinople and the Holy Land...
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    Christ's blood, brought to Hispania by Joseph of Arimathea. In the account of Arculf, a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon pilgrim, mention is made of a chalice venerated...
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    Apollodorus  –   Aral Volume 2.4:   Aram, Eugene  –   Arcueil Volume 2.5:   Arculf  –   Armour, Philip Volume 2.6:   Armour Plates  –   Arundel, Earls of Volume...
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    - if indeed it was destroyed in 614 - it was rebuilt and was visited by Arculf (c. 670) and described as two-level and round. During the following centuries...
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    Sanctuary"), Abd al-Malik wanted to replace the slipshod structure described by Arculf with a more sheltered structure enclosing the qibla, a necessary element...
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