The first church I ever visited in Jerusalem was The Church of the Flagellation. It is a small, lovely chapel that sits on the second stop of the Via Dolorosa and commemorates Jesus' beatings by Roman soldiers. ✝️ I vividly remember standing near the altar and admiring the striking gold-tiled ceiling. It took a few moments before I realized I was staring into a crown of thorns... A church was first built on the site by the Crusaders based on the existence of Roman paving mistakenly thought to ha

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