Dominus Flevit (Latin for
The Lord Wept) is a Roman Catholic Church built on the Mount of Olives, across the Kidron Valley from the old city of Jerusalem. It is built on the site where Jesus wept over the city of Jerusalem as he approached it the week before his crucifixion, what is referred to today as Palm Sunday. Luke 19:41-44 reads "
As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and said, “If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes. The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side. They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming to you.”
While I do not have a picture of the church, it is described as being built like a teardrop. See a photo of it here,
Shown below are photos of an ossuary that is on the site. An ossuary is a place to serve as the final resting place of human remains, frequently used when burial space is scare. A body is first buried in a temporary grave, then after some years the skeletal remains are removed and placed in an ossuary. The greatly reduced space taken up by an ossuary means that it is possible to store the remains of many more people in a single tomb than if the original coffins were left as is.
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| A panorama of the ossuary |
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