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