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SOPHRONIUS OF JERUSALEM (ca. 600 A.D.)
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The present state of the Sanctuary, in Moslem hands like the church of the Ascension, may not be exactly what the common pilgrim is expecting to find there. Nor you are seeing what the archeologist is used to identify as a typical first century jewish tomb. But it is important that the memory has never changed its place from the times of the Anonymous Pilgrim of Bordeaux down to our times. A low entrance, preceeded by few built in steps, leads to a small chamber covered by a low masonry vault. The masonry was built, probably in the Vth or Vth century A.D., to preserve the actual rock from disintegrating.
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 Please fill in our Guest book form - Thank you for supporting us! Project, design, research and realization carried out by Eugenio Alliata ofm, assistant professor of Christian Archaeology at SBF-Jerusalem. Updated Thu, Dec 9, 1999 at 05:03 by John Abela ofm - Space by courtesy of Christus Rex |
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