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SOPHRONIUS OF JERUSALEM (ca. 600 A.D.)
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The top of the Rock of Calvary may be seen now through glass, following a careful restoration work done in 1988 A.D. by the Greek-Orthodox community to whom this place belongs. To the right, a "fissure" deep in the rock is reminding of the events mentioned in the Gospel when Jesus: "cried again with a loud voice and yielded his spirit. And behold the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom; and the earth shook, and the rocks were split" (Mt 27:50-51). While the costantinian architect left the rock of Golgotha standing free and open to the sky, at Sophronius' times the rock was already included into a small structure built on four pillars connected by arches.
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 Please fill in our Guest book form - Thank you for supporting us! Project, design, research and realization carried out by Eugenio Alliata ofm, assistant professor of Christian Archaeology at SBF-Jerusalem. Updated Thu, Dec 9, 1999 at 05:14 by John Abela ofm - Space by courtesy of Christus Rex |
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