Sentence examples for first jubilee from inspiring English sources

Since the first Jubilee in 1300, popes have granted plenary indulgences to pilgrims who visit holy sites in Rome.

None of Massa's churches made the first Jubilee list, but last October, the Beni Culturali presented an updated list which included funds for Massa's San Felice, Santa Maria della Pace, and Santa Maria in Pantano.

Fine options in the Ghetto For another side of history in Rome, you might visit the neighborhood inhabited since the Middle Ages by a people who passed their Y2K more than 3,000 years ago and held the first jubilee.

"Medieval pilgrims used to come to Rome for spiritual and medical care," said Herbert L. Kessler, a professor of art history at Johns Hopkins University who just finished a book on the first Jubilee in 1300.

But beneath a shiny veneer of modern comfort and efficiency -- Internet-ready visitors' centers, air-conditioned Jubilee buses, microchip-equipped pilgrim cards that automatically book church services, tours and restaurants, chemical toilets and electric votive candles -- the Holy Year 2000 is laced with the kind of humble piety and awe that drew the first Jubilee pilgrims here in 1300.

The idea came to him after attending the first Jubilee in the city of Rome, in 1300, where he realized that Rome's many historical achievements were well-known, and he desired to lay out a history of the origins of his own city of Florence.

The first Fisk Jubilee concerts were held in order to plug a hole in the school's budget.

She completed her first novel, Jubilee (1966), as her doctoral dissertation for the University of Iowa (Ph.D., 1965).

Today, after 23,742 days on the throne, it's the start of the first sapphire jubilee in British history.

SECOND AVENUE JUBILEE, between 23rd and 34th Streets, Manhattan.

This year she will celebrate the 60th anniversary of her reign, only the second Diamond Jubilee in British history.