Born: 1918
Dead: December 6, 1991,
A Franciscan Friar and professor of archaeology at the Studium_Biblicum_Franciscanum in Jerusalem. Remembered for the exacavations 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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