TRAVELING TO CHRISTIAN’S SANCTUARIES IN OLD CITY AND NEARBY THE WALL.
1. The Basilica Dormiton: Mount of Zion carries on it the Dormiton Abbey sanctified as the place of Mary’s death, and the traditional Coenaculum or Cenacle, The Hall of the Last Supper.
1. The Basilica Dormiton: Mount of Zion carries on it the Dormiton Abbey sanctified as the place of Mary’s death, and the traditional Coenaculum or Cenacle, The Hall of the Last Supper.
Picture 21: The Basilica Dormiton
Below the Cenacle is what is known as the “Hall of the Washing of the Feet”. Leading off the hall is a chamber with an enormous cenotaph, which folklore holds to be King David’s Tomb
2. The Hall of the Last Supper :
…"The Master saith, Where is the guest-chamber, where I shall eat the Passover with my disciples ? And he will shew you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us".
Where Jesus sat with his disciples at the Passover Seder table.[Mat 26: 17-25; Mark 14: 12-16; Luke 22: 7-13; John 13: 2
1-30].
1-30].Pic. 22: The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci,1452-1509
The first Holy Communion in the Last Supper Room:
" And as they were
eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins". [Mat 26: 26-28; Mark 14: 22-25; Luke 22: 15-20; I Chorinthians 11: 23-25].
eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; For this is my blood of new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins". [Mat 26: 26-28; Mark 14: 22-25; Luke 22: 15-20; I Chorinthians 11: 23-25].
Pic. 23: The last Supper with washing basin for washing the feet of Jesus' disciples by Jacopo Bassano.
3. The Hall of the Washing of the Feet: Below the Hall of the Last Supper, where Jesus is believed to have poured “water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet.” [John 13: 5].
4. St. Peter in Gallicantu: It stands on the generally accepted House of Caiaphas, High Priest at the time of Jesus Execution. Here Peter is said to have denied his master, according to Jesus prophecy that, “Before the cock
crow, thou shall deny me thrice”. And Peter went out, and wept bitterly [Luke 22: 61-62].
4. St. Peter in Gallicantu: It stands on the generally accepted House of Caiaphas, High Priest at the time of Jesus Execution. Here Peter is said to have denied his master, according to Jesus prophecy that, “Before the cock
crow, thou shall deny me thrice”. And Peter went out, and wept bitterly [Luke 22: 61-62].Pic. 24: The Church St. Peter Gallicantu ["cock crow"]
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