Photograph album commemorating the laying of the foundation stone of the Church of the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor, Palestine, 1919

Description: Photograph album commemorating the laying of the foundation stone of the Church of the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor by Cardinal Filippo Giustini, Palestine, in 1919. The album contains fifteen photographs and was presented to Major Albert Harrington, Military Governor of Nazareth, by Fr. Gaudense Orfali OFM. It includes group portraits of clergymen such as Fr. Ferdinando Diotallevi OFM, Custos of the Holy Land, Fr. Francis Lamb O.Carm (1867-1950), Mgr. Gregorios Hajjar (1875–1940), Melkite Archbishop of Saint John of Akka, along with civil and political dignitaries including M. Louis Rais the French Consul, as well as numerous photographs of Cardinal Giustini carrying out the rites of consecration in the ruins of the old basilica.
Spatial Coverage: Palestine
Language: English; French
Date: 1919
Subject: Christianity; Palestine
Identifier: EUL MS 496