Monastery of the Olivetan Benedictine order in Israel
Benedictine monastery in Abu Ghosh
Abu Ghosh monastery
The
Benedictine monastery in Abu Ghosh
, officially
St Mary of the Resurrection Abbey
,
[1]
(
French
:
Abbaye Sainte-Marie de la Resurrection d'Abu Gosh
) is a monastery run by the
Olivetan
Benedictine
order in
Abu Ghosh
,
Israel
.
Its church is built on the foundations of the
Crusader
-period Church of the Resurrection, or Church of our Lord's Resurrection.
[2]
It was established in the 12th century on top of Roman ruins in the center of
Abu Ghosh
, known by the Crusaders as Fontenoid. Until the 19th century, the Arabs called the village Qaryet al-'Inab. The site was associated by the Crusaders with
Emmaus
from the
Gospel of Luke
.
France
claims ownership of the land as a
Domaine national francais
(
transl.
French national domain in the Holy Land
), under the Ottoman
capitulations
and says this was formalised by the
Fischer-Chauvel Agreement
of 1948, which has not been ratified by Israel.
History
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Church of the Resurrection with Crusader-era frescoes
The late
Romanesque
/
early Gothic
-style church
[3]
was built by the
Hospitallers
in 1140.
[4]
It was acquired by the
French government
in 1899 and placed under the guardianship of the French
Benedictine
Fathers.
Edward Robinson
(1838) described it as "obviously from the time of the crusades, and [...] more perfectly preserved than any other ancient church in Palestine." Excavations carried out in 1944 confirm that the Crusaders identified the site as the biblical Emmaus. The church is built over an ancient spring.
From 1956, the monastery was run by the
Lazarist
Fathers.
Today a
double monastery
of nuns and priests worship in the church and offer hospitality, commemorating the
New Testament
story of the couple on the Jerusalem?Emmaus road.
[4]
The walls are bearing traces of the Crusader-period frescoes, painted in
Byzantine style
and restored between 1995 and 2001.
[5]
See also
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- Crusader churches in Palestine (related aspects)
References
[
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]
- ^
"Unknown"
.
[
permanent dead link
]
- ^
Pringle, Denys (June 1, 1993).
"The Churches of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Corpus: Volume 1, A-K (excluding Acre and Jerusalem)"
. Cambridge University Press – via Google Books.
- ^
"A Crusader era church, great Middle Eastern food, and the battle for the road to Jerusalem | Sightseeing in Israel"
.
- ^
a
b
Martha Ann Kirk,
Women of Bible lands: a pilgrimage to compassion and wisdom
, p. 143.
- ^
Colorful Crusader Churches: Visiting the Monastery of the Resurrection
. By Jonathan Klawans, 2 August 2023, for Bible History Daily,
BiblicalArchaeology Society
. Accessed 7 August 2023.
External links
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