Vatican 1975 Holy Year Jubilee Basilicas of Rome Jesus Christ Medal i44400

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1975 Holy Year Central Committee with Jesus Christ and Basilicas of Rome by
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In Judaism and Christianity, the concept of the

Jubilee is a special year of remission of

sins and universal pardon. In the Biblical
Book of Leviticus
, a
Jubilee
year is mentioned to occur every
fiftieth year, in which slaves and prisoners would be freed, debts would be
forgiven and the mercies of God would be particularly manifest.

In the Holy Bible, Leviticus 25:8-13 states,

And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times
seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee
forty and nine years. Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to
sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall
ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. And ye shall hallow the
fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the
inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return
every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his
family. A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow,
neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it
of thy vine undressed. For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye
shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. In the year of this jubile
ye shall return every man unto his possession.

According to Rabbi Baruch S. Davidson (a member of the Chabad.org Ask the
Rabbi team) in his answer to, “When is the next Jubilee year?”, the Jubilee year
is currently not observed or commemorated. He explains that, in the 6th century
BCE, the Assyrians conquered the Northern Kingdom of Israel and sent the
majority of its population into exile. Those who were deported are historically
known as the Ten Lost Tribes. The Jewish peoples are certain before that point
in time the Jubilee was regularly observed. They also believe after the
destruction of the Second Temple and the disbandment of the Sanhedrin (supreme
rabbinical court), the Jubilee year was no longer marked in any form. Rabbi
Baaruch also noted, biblical law indicates the Jubilee is only observed when all
twelve Israelite tribes are living in Israel. (Lev 25:10 “And you shall sanctify
the fiftieth year, and proclaim freedom throughout the land for all who live on
it…”) These are two of many reasons, the Jubilee year is currently not
observed or commemorated. However, some Israelites are of the opinion that the
Jubilee is observed as long as there is a partial representation of each tribe.

In Christianity
, the tradition dates to 1300, when
Pope Boniface VIII
convoked a holy year,
following which ordinary jubilees have generally been celebrated every 25 or 50
years; with extraordinary jubilees in addition depending on need. Christian
Jubilees, particularly in the
Catholic
tradition, generally involve
pilgrimage
to a sacred site, normally the city
of Rome
.

Jesus (Greek:
Ἰησοῦς

Iesous; 7–2 BC to 30–33 AD), also referred to as Jesus of
Nazareth, is the central figure of
Christianity
, whom the teachings of most
Christian denominations
hold to be the
Son of God
. Christianity regards Jesus as the
awaited Messiah
of the
Old Testament
and refers to him as Jesus
Christ, a name that is also used in non-Christian contexts.

Virtually
all modern scholars of antiquity agree that
Jesus existed historically
, although the
quest for the historical Jesuss
has produced
little agreement on the
historical reliability of the Gospels
and on
how closely the biblical Jesus reflects the
historical Jesus
. Most scholars agree that
Jesus was a Jewish

rabbi
from
Galilee
who preached his message
orally
,
was baptized
by
John the Baptist
, and
was crucified
in
Jerusalem
on the orders of the
Roman prefect
,
Pontius Pilate
. Scholars have constructed
various
portraits
of the historical Jesus, which often
depict him as having one or more of the following roles: the leader of an
apocalyptic
movement, Messiah, a charismatic
healer, a sage and philosopher, or an
egalitarian

social reformer
. Scholars have correlated the
New Testament
accounts with non-Christian
historical records to arrive at an estimated
chronology of Jesus’ life
. The most widely used
calendar era
in the world (abbreviated as “AD“,
alternatively referred to as “CE“),
counts from
a medieval estimate
of the birth year of Jesus.

Christians believe that Jesus has a “unique significance” in the world.
Christian doctrines include the beliefs that Jesus was conceived by the
Holy Spirit
, was
born of a virgin
, performed
miracles
, founded
the Church
, died by crucifixion as a sacrifice
to achieve
atonement
,
rose from the dead
, and
ascended
into
heaven
, whence he
will return
. The great majority of Christians
worship Jesus as the
incarnation
of
God the Son
, the second of three
persons
of a
Divine Trinity
. A few Christian groups
reject Trinitarianism
, wholly or partly, as
non-scriptural.

In Islam
, Jesus (commonly transliterated as


Isa) is considered one of
God’s
important
prophets
and the Messiah. To
Muslims
, Jesus is a
bringer of scripture
and was born of a virgin,
but neither the Son of God nor the victim of crucifixion. According to the
Quran
, Jesus
was not crucified
but was physically
raised into the heavens
by God.
Judaism

rejects
the Christian and Islamic belief that
Jesus was the awaited Messiah, arguing that he did not fulfill the
Messianic prophecies
in the
Tanakh
.