Augustinian Fathers of the Assumption in Jerusalem, Saint Peter in Gallicantu (ACJ)

• Religious

The Congregation of the Augustinians of the Assumption was founded in 1845 by Father Emmanuel d'Alzon. Their establishment in Jerusalem was marked by the purchase in 1882 of the land of the future Notre-Dame de France through Count Pierre de Piellat, "benefactor of French works in Palestine" on the one hand and by the purchase in 1887 of the estate of Saint-Pierre en Gallicante, the year in which the first Assumptionist fathers finally settled in Jerusalem.

Entry prepared on September 2018

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Author : Open Jerusalem http://www.openjerusalem.org/