Pilgrimage to the Church of Visitation

Pilgrimage to the Church of Visitation

The Virgin Mary’s visit to Elizabeth — depicted in mosaic on the façade — is commemorated in a two-tiered church, on a slope of the hill south of Ein Karem. This is believed to be the site of Zechariah and Elizabeth’s summer house, where Mary came to visit her cousin. On the wall opposite the church, ceramic plaques reproduce Mary’s canticle of praise, the Magnificat (Luke 1:46-55) in some 50 languages.

In the lower chapel, a vaulted passage leads to an old well. An ancient tradition asserts that a spring joyfully burst out of the rock here when Mary greeted Elizabeth. A huge stone set in a niche is known as the Stone of Hiding. According to an ancient tradition, the stone opened to provide a hiding place for the baby John during Herod’s Massacre of the Innocents — an event depicted in a painting on the wall.
Source: seetheholyland.net

Description of Site:
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Time Stamp:
0:00 – Introduction
0:48 – Upper Level (church)
1:18 – Altar of the Church
2:22 – Dome Murals
3:02 – Wall Murals
4:12 – Lower Level (chapel)
4:34 – Stone of Hiding
4:45 – Courtyard
5:37 - End

Information and Prayer:
We visited this holy place and took pictures and made them into a video with scripture-based music done by gifted instrumentalists. We designed them for special moments of reflection for anyone who had travel to this holy place in the past that they may reminisce their visit or for those who are planning to visit in the future. “To walk where Jesus, Joseph and Mary had walked”. We hope that those who are unable to travel due to medical and personal reasons, as pray that as you spend time watching this video, may you feel the same presence of Jesus that we all felt.

Bible Verse: Mary Visits Elizabeth
39 In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, 40 where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. 41 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the child leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit 42 and exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. 43 And why has this happened to me, that the mother of my Lord comes to me? 44 For as soon as I heard the sound of your greeting, the child in my womb leaped for joy. 45 And blessed is she who believed that there would be[e] a fulfillment of what was spoken to her by the Lord.”

Luke 1:39-44 NRSV Catholic Edition

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