Late 7th c. Frankish bishop, traveler in the Levant
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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 Ecclesiastical History of the English People (V, 15), Arculf was shipwrecked on the shore of Iona on his return from his pilgrimage. He was hospitably received by Adomnán, the abbot of the island monastery from 679 to 704, to whom he gave a detailed narrative of his travels. Adomnán, with aid from some further sources, was able to produce De Locis Sanctis ("on the sacred places"), a descriptive work in three books dealing with Jerusalem, Bethlehem, other sites in the Holy Land, and briefly with Alexandria and Constantinople. Many details about Arculf's journeys can be inferred from this text.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
That year, an earthquake destroyed Jericho. A decade later, the pilgrim Arculf visited Jericho and found it in ruins, all its "miserable Canaanite" inhabitants...
Sanctuary"), Abd al-Malik wanted to replace the slipshod structure described by Arculf with a more sheltered structure enclosing the qibla, a necessary element...
- 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...
tradition predates the Grail romances: in the 7th century, the pilgrim Arculf reported that the Last Supper chalice was displayed near Jerusalem. In the...
Aeolian Islands are already known to Isidor of Seville, the Gallic bishop Arculf, who dictated his journey to the Holy Land to the Irishman Adomnan (before...
immediate impact on the Christians of Nazareth and their churches, since Bishop Arculf remembered seeing there around 670 two churches, one at the house of Joseph...
Thomas (1848). Early Travels in Palestine: Comprising the Narratives of Arculf, Willibald, Bernard, Saewulf, Sigurd, Benjamin of Tudela, Sir John Maundeville...
known eyewitness testimony is that of the pilgrim Arculf who visited about 670. According to Arculf's account as recorded by Adomnán, he saw a rectangular...
The Arculf Map of Jerusalem is an ancient ground plan map of the city of Jerusalem which was published in manuscripts of the first book of De Locis Sanctis...
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...
Chronicon Paschale, 7th-century Greek Christian chronicle of the world Arculf, pilgrim to the Holy Land John of Würzburg, pilgrim to the Holy Land The...
construct a small synagogue within the Herodian precinct. Catholic bishop Arculf, who visited the Holy Land during the Umayyad period, described the city...
describing the pilgrimage of Arculf in 670, places the lance in Jerusalem, at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.: 12 Arculf is the last of the medieval...
minaret, is known as the place to which he retired for his prayer. Bishop Arculf, whose account of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the seventh century...
Early travels in Palestine: comprising the narratives of Arculf, Willibald, [and others]: Arculf, Willibald, Bernard, Sæwulf, Sigurd, Benjamin of Tudela...
Thomas (1848). Early Travels in Palestine: Comprising the Narratives of Arculf, Willibald, Bernard, Saewulf, Sigurd, Benjamin of Tudela, Sir John Maundeville...
and travel guides of the Holy Land Cartography Madaba Map (6th century) Arculf Map of Jerusalem (c. 680) Late Roman and Byzantine period Itinerarium Burdigalense...
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