Church
Pater Noster church
Cloistered convent church where ceramic tiles display the Lord's Prayer in over a hundred languages above an unfinished, roofless basilica.
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Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Pater Noster church on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives centers on Aurelie de la Tour d'Auvergne, an Italian-born princess who arrived in 1868 convinced a lost cave lay buried beneath the ridge, and bought the hillside to prove it. You'll hear how she founded a Carmelite convent here in 1872 and began covering its walls with the Lord's Prayer in tile after tile, language after language, long before anyone could confirm she was right. Look for the roofless basilica beside the cloister, where the tiled walls are worth pausing over one language at a time.
This audio guide was created using AI.