Saint Hilarion Monastery. The Byzantine Church of Jabalia, dating from the 5th century and restored in 2022, was destroyed. The destruction of Gaza City's...

or Beit Lahiya (Arabic: بيت لاهيا) is a city in the Gaza Strip, north of Jabalia, in the North Gaza Governorate of the State of Palestine. It sits next...

died after 543), also known as Barsanuphius of Palestine, Barsanuphius of Gaza or Barsanuphius the Great (in Eastern Orthodoxy), was a Christian hermit...

time, also in the Gaza strip. During Byzantine rule, the first hermitage in Palestine was established by the early Christian monk Hilarion at the site of...

Judean desert, Sait Gerasimus' monastery near Jericho, Saint Hilarion's monastery near Gaza, and Saint Theodosius' monastery near Bethlehem. It also became...

was also the national god of the Philistines, with temples at Ashdod and Gaza, but there is no extrabiblical evidence confirming this. The extrasolar object...

Desert Mothers (4th–5th c.) Stephen Bar Sudhaile (5th century) Aeneas of Gaza (d. c. 518) John Climacus (525–606); Maximus the Confessor (c.580–662); Pseudo-Dionysius...

Abraham of Farshut Abraham of Scetis Amun Anthony the Great Awgin Bashnouna Hilarion Horsiesius Hospitius Mother Irini Isaac of Nineveh Isidore of Pelusium...

attacked all the way from Qatraneh to Gaza. The weary army were killed and robbed, and by the time Ibrahim Pasha reached Gaza, the commander had lost most of...

standing on top of the Castel Sant'Angelo, modelled in 1753 by Peter Anton von Verschaffelt. Michael's icon on the northern deacons' door on the iconostasis...