Virgilio Canio Corbo
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Born: 1918
Dead: December 6, 1991,
A Franciscan Friar and professor of archaeology at the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum in Jerusalem. Remembered for the excavations 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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