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Via Dolorosa

The Via Dolorosa is the Christian processional route through Jerusalem’s Old City, tracing the fourteen Stations of the Cross. The post here walks the route station by station, taking in the chapels and churches built along it over the centuries.

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Convent of the Sisters of Bethlehem, Beit Jamal
Centre · Jerusalem

Christianity in the Judean Hills

The final of five field trips on Christian sites: Abu Ghosh, Ein Kerem and Beit Jamal. Crusader churches, the birthplace of John the Baptist and a Salesian monastery on the way home.

Jun 2013 · 5 minute read
Olivier - the wonderful Benedictine monk in Abu Ghosh Church of the Visitation, Ein Kerem Mary's Spring, Ein Kerem Church of St John the Baptist, Ein Kerem Spring at St John in the Desert, Even Sapir Our Lady of the Ark of the Covenant, Kiriat Yearim Convent of the Sisters of Bethlehem, Beit Jamal Church of St Stephen, Beit Jamal
Via Dolorosa, Jerusalem
Centre · Jerusalem

The Via Dolorosa

Walking the Via Dolorosa, station by station from the Antonia fortress to the aedicule in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. With a morning stop at the Garden Tomb, the Church of St Anne and the Pool of Bethesda.

Jun 2013 · 6 minute read
Burial Cave at The Garden Tomb, Jerusalem Church of St Anne, Jerusalem Ruins at Bethesda, Jerusalem Chapel of the Flagellation, Jerusalem Chapel marking one of Jesus' three falls on the Via Dolorosa Crosses left by pilgrims at station nine on the Via Dolorosa Roman Catholic mass inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre Edicule of the Tomb, Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Church of the Pater Noster (Eleona) on the Mount of Olives
Centre · Jerusalem

Christianity on the Mount of Olives and Mount Zion

A walking tour of the Christian sites surrounding the final days of Jesus: from the Chapel of the Ascension on the Mount of Olives, down through Gethsemane, and up to the Last Supper room and St Peter in Gallicantu on Mount Zion.

May 2013 · 7 minute read
View over the Old City of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives Chapel of the Ascension on the Mount of Olives Church of the Pater Noster (Eleona) on the Mount of Olives Church of Dominus Flevit on the Mount of Olives Inside the Church of Gethsemane in Jerusalem Tomb of the Virgin Mary in Jerusalem Dormition Abbey on Mount Zion Sculpture inside the Last Supper Room (Cenacle) in Jerusalem View over Jerusalem from Mount Zion Church of St Peter in Gallicantu on Mount Zion Steps leading down Mount Zion towards Gethsemane from the Roman period
Church of the Multiplication at Tabgha
North · Galilee

Christianity Around the Sea of Galilee

Day two of our Christian odyssey takes us around the shores of the Kinneret: the Jesus Boat at Ginosar, the Mount of Beatitudes, the two churches at Tabgha, Capernaum, Kursi and Yardenit. With a quick lunch of St Peter's Fish in the middle.

May 2013 · 6 minute read
Jesus Boat at Ginosar / Gennesaret Church of the Beatitudes View over the Sea of Galilee at the Mount of Beatitudes Church of the Multiplication at Tabgha Church of the Primacy of St Peter at Tabgha Church of the Twelve Apostles at Capernaum View into St Peter's House, Capernaum Synagogue at Capernaum / Kfar Nachum Byzantine church ruins at Kursi Baptism ceremony in the Jordan River at Yardenit
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