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Jerusalem: Church of the Visitation-Mosaic

Jerusalem: Church of the Visitation-Mosaic


‎The facade of the Church of the Visitation at Ein Karem, decorated with a mosaic depicting the Virgin Mary on her way from Nazareth, accompanied by angels, to visit her relative Elizabeth, wife of Zechariah, who was a priest in the Temple. The mosaic was made in the Vatican in 1943. The inscription at the bottom of the golden frame is a quotation from Luke 1:39: “In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a city of Judah”. It is related that when Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting the babe leaped in her womb and she was filled with the Holy Spirit, and when her time came she gave birth to St. John the Baptist.


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