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Church of Ecce Homo

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Church of Ecce Homo

Name: Church of Ecce Homo
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Bumble-Bee

March 30, 2023

In the first century BC, Herod the Great built a large open-air pool.[2] In the second century, Roman Emperor Hadrian added arched vaulting to enable pavement to be placed over the pool, making it a large cuboid cistern to gather rainwater from guttering on the forum buildings. On the surface, Hadrian built a triple-arched gateway[3] as an entrance to the eastern forum of the Aelia Capitolina in Jerusalem.[4][5][6] The northern arch is preserved under the apse of the Basilica of Ecce Homo.

By 1857, Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne, a French Jew and former atheist who converted to Catholicism and became a priest, decided to purchase the site and start a convent.[7] Between 1858 and 1862, he built a basilica (the Church of Ecce Homo), which overlaps part of the gateway arch. He also built an orphanage for girls and other standard convent buildings. A school for girls has been added with boarders coming from all over the Arab world till 1967. As the convent was confined in size, the nuns bought a few of the surrounding Arab homes and incorporated them into the convent; they soon opened a medical dispensary on the site. Due to the introduction of state support for orphans, by the Ottoman government and later (1948) by the Israeli government, the orphanage buildings have been used for other religious purposes since 1967. The convent now maintains a guesthouse and library.[citation needed]
Lithostrotos: Roman pavement once thought to be the site of Jesus' trial.

Beneath the convent is an extensive area of Roman flagstones. As these continue, to a lesser extent, under the Church of the Condemnation, they have been known for several centuries.[citation needed] Due in part to an etching of a game by Roman soldiers discovered in 1864 involving the execution of a "monk king", the flagstones were thought by nuns to be those of Gabbatha, which John 19:13 describes as the location where Pontius Pilate adjudged Jesus' trial.[4] It is possible that following its destruction the Antonia Fortress's pavement tiles were brought to Hadrian's plaza.[4]

(en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Convent_of_the_Sisters_of_Zion&uselang=en)

Felix-Kaspar

September 13, 2023

bennant nach der Behold the man rede von pontius pilatus

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JakobusPilger

September 22, 2025

This sanctuary was not dedicated to a person venerated as holy, but rather the church was placed under the special protection of the incarnate Son of God – Jesus Christ. However, the patronage of "ECCE HOMO" does not focus on the almighty God – as Creator of heaven and earth – but rather on the one who endures scorn and ridicule, torture and crucifixion. For it is precisely because Jesus Christ bore the pain of suffering and death that we Christians are redeemed for all time.
In the traditional Stations of the Cross, we pray at the third station: "He was pierced for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities. He had no form or comeliness, a man of sorrows, acquainted with infirmity." This is a most apt description of the ECCE HOMO.

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