Virgilio Canio Corbo

Virgilio Canio Corbo

Born: 1918

Dead: December 6, 1991,

A Franciscan Friar and professor of archaeology at the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum in Jerusalem. Remembered for the excavations of many religious sites:
* the Shepherds' field near Bethlehem
* the place of the Ascension on the Mount of Olives
* the fortress of Herod the Great ("Herodion")
* another Herodian fortress across the river Jordan ("Machaerus")
* a Byzantine basilica and Monastery on Mt. Nebo in Jordan
* the church of the Holy Sepulchre
* the ancient city of Magdala


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