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Date 1899-02-16-01, sorted by event description, descending

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1899 16 Feb
189-		 The third group of Western pilgrims arrived in the Holy Land after completing their six-week cruise on the Nile.
  • The group consisted of Anne Apperson, Julia Pearson and Robert Turner.
  • As the pilgrims prepared to depart May Bolles and Maryam Thornburgh-Cropper, Mrs Thornburgh's daughter, arrived in Port Said from Marseilles. The two women proceeded directly to Haifa. [BFA1:145]
  • See EP12-13 for May Maxwell's reaction to meeting 'Abdu'l-Bahá for the first time.
    		• - First pilgrims; Akka, Israel; Anne Apperson; Haifa, Israel; Julia Pearson; Mary Virginia Thornburgh-Cropper (Maryam Khánum); May Maxwell; Pilgrimage; Pilgrims; Robert Turner
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