The Church of the Pater Noster

This is an interesting spot. There was a church built here in the 4th century by Constantine as the Church of Eleona to mark the Ascension. It was discoverwed in 1910 beneath a Roman Catholic convent.. In the cloisters of the convent have been placed a series of plaques with The Lord's Prayer (hence Pater Noster) in over 100 different languages.

After this it was a short walk past the Tomb of the Prophets to the Mount of Olives Viewpoint. According to a medieval Jewish tradition, the catacomb is believed to be the burial place of Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi, the last three Hebrew Bible prophets who lived during the 6th-5th centuries BC. Archaeologists have dated the three earliest burial chambers to the 1st century BC, thus contradicting the tradition. Oh well ... still a pretty old catacomb!Lue lisää