Christian Kruik van Adrichem, or Christianus Crucius Adrichomius, (February 13, 1533 — June 20, 1585) was a Catholic

Catholic

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 priest and theological writer.

Van Adrichem was born in Delft

Delft

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. He was ordained in 1566, and was Director of the Convent of St. Barbara in Delft till expelled by the storm of the Reformation

Protestant Reformation

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. He died in Cologne

Cologne

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His works are: Vita Jesu Christi (Antwerp, 1578) and Theatrum Terrae Sanctae et Biblicarum Historiarum (Cologne, 1590). This last work gives a description of Palestine

Palestine

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, of the antiquities of Jerusalem, and a chronology from Adam till the death of John the Apostle

John the Apostle

John the Apostle, John the Apostle, John the Apostle, (Aramaic Yoħanna, (c. 6 - c. 100) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He was the son of Zebedee and Salome, and brother of James, another of the Twelve Apostles...

in 109.