Basilique de l'Ecce homo

This guide to the Basilique de l'Ecce Homo in Jerusalem begins with Alphonse Ratisbonne, a French Jewish banker who had a sudden vision in a Rome church in 1842, converted, became a priest, and years later returned to Jerusalem to buy land on the Via Dolorosa for a school. It follows what his workers found when they dug the foundations in 1857: a buried paved plaza scratched with a game board and dice marks, and the conclusions the nuns who followed him drew about what that pavement once witnessed.