Pilgrimage photos show Holy Land experience

The Catholic Telegraph / December 10, 2014 / 2.3k

Holy Land 3 Syria — Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr and pilgrims from Cincinnati got an opportunity to view the Israeli-Syrian border in the Golan Heights Dec. 6. They said a prayer for peace as U.N armored vehicles sped by in convoy on the road behind them. The 80 pilgrims left on their Holy Land visit Dec. 1 and will return Dec. 13. (CT Photo/Steve Trosley)

Staff Report

Editor and general manager of The Catholic Telegraph, Steve Trosley, is embedded with a group of travelers, including Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr, currently on pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

The pilgrims arrived in Tel Aviv Dec. 2 and will depart for the U.S. on Dec. 13. In the meantime, Trosley has sent some early photos that show small parts of the experience.

At present, the group is spending their third day in Jerusalem, where they will remain until departing for the U.S. via Tel Aviv.

The pilgrimage is a project of the Companions of St. James of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and is being facilitated by George’s International Travel.

The Catholic Telegraph will have an in-depth story and additional photos from the pilgrimage at its conclusion.

Jordanian guide Emad Ziadat, foreground, an Arab Catholic from Al Fuheis, a suburb of Amman, describes the 5,000 year-old Citidel’s role in the story of Christianity as Catholic Schools Superintendent Jim Rigg and another pilgrim look on. The group of Cincinnati Archdiocese pilgrims visited Emad’s home parish for Mass on their first day in Jordan. They also saw the site where John the Baptist baptized Jesus on the Jordan River and the ancient city of Petra. The hospitality of people in Jordan was amazing, according to Archbishop Schnurr. (CT Photo/Steve Trosley)

Archdiocese of Cincinnati Stewardship Director Michael Vanderburgh rides a camel at Petra in Jordan. Vanderburgh organized the pilgrimage. The group visited Holy Land sites for two days in Jordan near Amman and Mount Nebo, where Moses is said to have been shown the Promised Land before he died. The group has attended Mass each day of the trip and prayers have and singing hymns has been part of the bus ride from location to location. (CT Photo/Steve Trosley)

Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr and pilgrims from Cincinnati got an opportunity to view the Israeli-Syrian border in the Golan Heights Dec. 6. They said a prayer for peace as U.N armored vehicles sped by in convoy on the road behind them. The 80 pilgrims left on their Holy Land visit Dec. 1 and will return Dec. 13. (CT Photo/Steve Trosley)

Sunrise on the Sea of Galilee, where pilgrims from the Archdiocese of Cincinnati spent two nights at the Pilgerhaus, a hostel near Tiberius. While there the pilgrims visited Nazareth, sites near the Sea and sailed across its waters. Guides from the Franciscans of the Holy Land matched the view of the various sites with scripture passages to enrich the Bible experience of the pilgrimage. (CT Photo/Steve Trosley)

Posted Dec. 10, 2014

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